LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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For the Yachtsman Skipper's Cockpit Guide ISBN 0713652 799 By Bo Streiffert Published by Adtard Coles Nautical Among our supporters are many people who go to sea both for their work and for their leisure and it is the leisure market at...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 13th of March, 1951, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Built to Order Built to Last
The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
Category: Articles
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
Talking With John Tyrrell FRINA
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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Life-Boat Model Wins First Prize
A CUP, which was offered by the Daily Express for the best model of a boat in a competition staged in connection with the National Boat Show at Earls Court, was won by Mr. Arthur Sallis of Brighton. His model was of the Plymouth life-boat,...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXV.-ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLES.
The Henry Dundas, 37 feet long, 9 feet beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat was stationed at St. Mary's, the capital of the Scilly Isles, in 1874. Previous to that time it...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Annilal Meeting of this Institution wag held at Willis's Rooms on the 31st May. His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, President of the Society, In the Chttjlr; there were also present ft large number of the friends find supporters of...
Category: Meetings
Mrs Eva Sugden 106 on July 20
Mrs Eva Sugden, 106 on July 20, must indeed be the RNLI's oldest supporter. She is believed to have been the founder member of Spenborough ladies' guild, formed in 1928, of which at one time she was honorary secretary and of which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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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