CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
Category: Articles
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
Ken Derham names Mudeford's new Atlantic 21 with enthusiasm - and drenches the crew in the process. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1. No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit—two rescue/target towing launches (can be made available for S. & R.).
2. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight available for S. & R. duty, from 08.00 hours to...
Category: Charts
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
Category: Articles
The Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is interested in the past and the present. This fine photograph, typical of the kind of pictures which members bring to light, shows the Dickinson Edleston life-boat which was stationed at Longhope,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs