LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
Category: Correspondence
R.N.L.B.I. Headquarters' Staff In the War
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
A Great Example of How a Picture Can Paint a Thousand Words
A great example of how a picture can paint a thousand words - Sheringham lifeboatmen share a cup of tea with the rescued crew of the Canadian steamer faglesdiffe Hall. - View image in PDF
Photo; Nfws Chronicle. 30 October 1941. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat As Mail Boat
The Minister for Posts and Tele- graphs in the Republic of Ireland has sent his thanks to the life-boat station at Kilronan for carrying mails for the Aran Islands from Rossaveal to Kilronan.
The mails were loaded by the...
Category: Services
Avon Star
OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At eight at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore beside the coastguard station one mile north of Peterhead.
The sea was smooth, but there were patches of...
Life-Boats of Six Countries on the Thames
LIFE-BOATS have already been seen on the Thames. In the Pageant of the Sea Services of the War, which was held on the Thames, in 1919, with the King in his Royal Barge at the head, two Life-boats took part, the steam Life-boat James Stevens...
Category: Articles
Bosun and Motor Fishing Vessel Gentlemaid
Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...
A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-Boats Destroyed
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1881.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., P.E.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
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