LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Across the Years
50 years ago the RNLI linked the Battle of Britain with the Isle of Man Fifty years ago this autumn, at a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday 3 September 1940, the emotionless voice of an airfield controller scrambled a small group of...
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Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION APPEAL., SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron—His Most gracious Majesty the King,—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS, K.G.
EDWARD BIRKBECK,...
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The RNLI and us
Mayday, our national fundraising event, really seemed to capture the hearts of RNLI supporters – including some household names. Here’s why they pulled on yellow wellies to show their RNLI support …
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Looking to the Future
In June the RHLI asked Its supporters to help quantify its 'Vision and Ualues1 for the future.
Here Undrew Freemantle, Director of the Institution, reports on the outcomeM any thousands of people intimately involved in...
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The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
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"Prudential." Naming Ceremony of the New Ramsgate Motor Life-Boat
Naming Ceremony of the new Ramggate Motor Life-boat.
THE naming ceremony of this, the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat, took place on 14th April last in the Inner Harbour at Ramsgate. The full cost of the Boat,...
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Three Medal Services. Donna Nook, Lincolnshire; Humber, Yorkshire; Gorleston, Suffolk
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not have been worse. A whole gale was blowing from the north. A tremendous sea was...
Category: Medals
Die Manten (1)
The Die Manten afterwards drove ashore some miles to the southward of Montrose, and on the wreck being observed among the breakers on the 25th March the AdmiralFitzroy Life-boat stationed at Anstruther put off and found there was only one...
The Annie, of Westhaven
APRIL 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 9.45 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard station that a fishing boat was in need of help a mile and a half east-south-east of the station. A strong north-west wind was...