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Beaufort (Air-Sea) Equipment Ltd

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

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...

Category: Advertisement

Annual Meeting

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

THE eighty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Wednesday, April 16th, 1913, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.

the Lord Mersey, P.O., presided, and amongst...

Category: Meetings

A Sailboard

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

Mike Smith, a Tunbridge Wells teacher and a member of the Long Distance Walkers Association, 'pushed out the boat' for the RNLI when the Mayor set him off on a 170-mile sponsored walk from Tunbridge Wells to Weymouth. Mike was...

Category: Articles

(Below) a Vintage Gift: This 1926

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Loss of H.M.S. 'Captain'

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

AMIDST the fearful events of the war, which at this moment are rending the heart of Europe and holding captive the sympathies of us all, there are few public events of a sufficiently stirring nature to claim from any of us more than a...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom

Date: August 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 129

LII. PLYMOUTH.—The Clemency, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.

ALTHOUGH the history of Plymouth is intimately connected with the exploits of the renowned and adventurous sailors of the Elizabethan era, it does not seem...

Category: Articles

Listings

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

On station ON-1127(47-019) Babs and Agnes Robertson, The Mumbles, 15 July 2006. ON-1096(47-005)ft/)eMw»e Measures withdrawn ON-1281(16-02) Haydn M/7/er, Tenby, 28 April 2006.

ON-1112(47-010) RFA Sir Galahad withdrawn...

Category: Articles

The Fundraisers

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Surf And Turf A fundraising evening organised by the Campbeltown ladies lifeboat guild was a great success thanks to a fashion show of Douglas Gill's sailing and outdoor clothes and a fascinating talk from Tony Lambert, horticulturist...

Category: Articles

The Annual Meeting

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster on the 8th of March, 1955, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of...

Category: Meetings