LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CLOse up Innovation stations Providing more than just a reassuring reminder of the RNLI’s presence, the charity’s 232 stations are as carefully designed as the lifeboats they house.
Elizabeth Paine finds out more When a...
Category: Articles
An Original Cartoon By Mac of the Daily Mail Was One of the Lots at Truro Branch's Celebrity Auction at New Tregye Hotel Carnon Downs Last September Some 200 Let
An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Second Life-Boat Medal Awarded Forty-Five Years Later
AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
Category: Services
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Response and Responsibility
For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
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The Serious Business of the Lottery Draw Over the Chairman and Acting Director Join Ed Stewart and the Children In the Fun of 'Crackerjack!'
The serious business of the lottery draw over, the chairman and acting director join Ed Stewart and the children in the fun of 'Crackerjack!'. - View image in PDF
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Here and There
A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...
Category: Articles
A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
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(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post,
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post, outside Botchins the butchers in St John's Wood; now 80 years old, she has collected regularly since I960 and this year she brought in £26.49 in spile of biting winds. But... - View image in PDF
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