LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report. 1894
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town. Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1894, His GRACE THE DUKE or WESTMINSTER, K.G., in the Chair, the...
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International Call...
The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...
Category: Meetings
Scarborough Evening News Man on the Spot on 7Th August Was Chief Photographer Jay Mason—He Was Taking Pictures of Filey Life-Boat's Demonstration Launch When a Real Rescue Came Up. Th
Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF
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What and Where?
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STATION FLEET ABERDEEN ABERDOVEY ABERSOCH ABERYSTWYTH ACHILL ISLAND ATTH ALDERNEY AMBLE ANGLE ANSTRUTHER APPLEDORE...
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Feature Expansion and Consolidation
The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
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With the Little Ships at Dunkirk
Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMLY.N, ANGLESEY, AND HARTLEPOOL.— THE B.OY.AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has provided these Life-boat Stations with new ten-oared boats of the newest type, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, each being provided with three water-ballast...
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Rnli News
Freedom of Swansea The officers, committee and crew of The Mumbles lifeboat station were honoured with the Freedom of the City of Swansea on April 23, 1987, when the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Mrs Lilian Hopkin, presented the freedom...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
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Two Local Sisters, Mrs. S. J. Sutcliffe and Miss M. A. Law (left), Handing Over An IRB at Llandudno, Which They Have Presented In Memory of Mrs. Sutcliffe's Husband
Two local sisters, Mrs. S. J. Sutcliffe and Miss M. A. Law (left), handing over an IRB at Llandudno, which they have presented in memory of Mrs. Sutcliffe's husband.. - View image in PDF
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