LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FLEETWOOD.—In accordance with the wishes of the Life-boat men, the Life-boat which is kept moored afloat at Fleetwood has been replaced by a new sailing boat, which is a modification of the large one designed in 1887 for the South- port...
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March 4th, 1824: March 4th, 1924
THE Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, " at a Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others, held at the City of London Tavern, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair." Such is the brief record...
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Around the Fundraising Regions
branches and guilds in the Southern and Republic of Ireland regions SOUTHERN ENGLAND RNLI 17 Cobham Road Ferndown Wimborne Dorset BH21 7PE Tel (0202) 861166 Fax(0202) 861116 Regional Manager: Mrs E. W. Nelson Berkshire Ascot Bracknell and...
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Scott Bader
Great Crystic Boats! Arun Class GRP Lifeboat for RNLI Crystic polyester resin was used for the GRP hull,decks and superstructure of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's first all-GRP offshore lifeboat - a 54ft Arun Class...
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Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
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Review
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
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Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCPPOBTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY OONTHIBUTIOjra.
t — His GBACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUHBERLAKD, P.O.
Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.
JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...
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Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1951 - 77,369 Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-boat Service* OUR British race...
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General Motors Ltd
GenerdjVfofons are proud ifiat their Detroit Diesel engines have been "• *} chosen to power the R.N.U.
44ft & 52ft stee ifeboats.
General Motors Limited, Power and Industrial Division, Undon Road...
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