LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Before the University Boat Race took place on the Thames on 1st April, 1972, Commander P. Thornycroft, V.R.D., R.N.R., M.R.I.N.A., of T.T. Boat Designers Ltd, Bembridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'We have been asked by the B.B.C. if a boat can be...
Category: Articles
Feature Advancing a Great Cause
In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat...
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The Record of the Branches
In the first of the two following tables are the twenty Branches which have the largest total contributions for 1924.
The second table gives simply a selection of Branches from different parts of the country, which have a...
Category: Branches
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
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Tyre-Ing Carnival Day!
Eight-year-old Heather Lean took to the boats to help Newquay lifeboat station last summer. She joined Newquay's carnival parade in a new design of 'inshore lifeboat' - specially made for her by her grandfather Jack Parkin,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats of the World: Part Ii—Sea Rescue Outside Europe By Eric Middleton
THE LIFEBOAT ORGANISATIONS of the world are to a large extent concentrated in Europe. Taking the wider aspect of general sea rescue, outside Europe it is mainly in the hands of the naval services or, as in the United States and Canada, an...
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A Royal Air Force Launch
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
Beaufort (Air-Sea) Equipment Ltd
Three inflated claims fora Beaufort boat It won't sink Famous last words, we know, but then our design's a bit different from an ordinary boat. For a start there are separate buoyancy chambers.
Even if the...
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Riddled Ventilating Pipe from the Eastbourne Lifeboat Jane Holland After Visiting Dunkirk In 1940 and (Below) Special War Artist Bryan De Grineau's Impression of the Du
Riddled ventilating pipe from the Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Holland after visiting Dunkirk in 1940, and (below) special war artist Bryan de Grineau's impression of the Dunkirk evacuation in full swing. An RNLI lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.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 Correspondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee