LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mercantile Credit
Help yourself.... and the R.N.L.I.
Special rates on loans to buy what you want- now! Every loan a RNLI member takes out, under a special arrangement with Mercantile Credit Company Limited, means a welcome donation to the...
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People and Places
Luck of the draw The 45th lottery draw took place on Sunday 30 April at RNLI Headquarters and was attended by a coach party of voluntary workers from the Dudley Branch.
Mrs Felicity Irwin, Public Affairs Executive for TVS,...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
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Southwest Passage
Howard Richings, the PNLI's Shoreworks Manager continues his voyage around the coast - here he looks at the stations from Exmouth to Fowey With the RNLI's 175th anniversary celebrations under way and the editor's insistence that...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.
Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...
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Gang Warily (1)
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the rnternationaf Life-boat Conference that it she act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The Institution...
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September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
Category: Services
When Leeds Ladies' Luncheon Club Celebrated Its 21st Anniversary Last October the Oldest Member 92-Year-Old Mrs Rose Skelton Cut the Birthday Cake; It Was Later So
When Leeds ladies' luncheon club celebrated its 21st anniversary last October the oldest member, 92-year-old Mrs Rose Skelton, cut the birthday cake; it was later sold at lOp per portion, raising £5.50.
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Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
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