LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Following the success of last year's exhibition at the Templars Secondary School in Stepney an even more impressive show was put on this year, to coincide with London Life-boat Day. Pride of place was given to an I.R.B. Other exhibits...
Category: Donations
A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
Services of Shore-Boats, In Saving Life from Shipwreck In 1862, for Which Rewards Have Been Granted By The National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
Lifeboat Lottery
Summer 2009 winners
1st prize: Peugeot 107 Urban 3-door hatchback, Mr D Lowman, London (pictured on his VIP visit to Tower lifeboat station)
2nd prize: 13-night cruise onboard Balmoral to the Canary...
Category: Articles
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
Category: Articles
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
The Quorn Fine Art Co
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINTS COMMEMORATING A GREAT BRITISH TRADITION H.M.S. ARK ROYAL AND MORNING CLOUD ery few limited edition prints have received as much praise aroused such interest as these splendid examples of man's endurance...
Category: Advertisement
Harwell Apprentice Training School Raised £355
Harwell Apprentice Training School raised £355 for the lifeboats by winning the 24-hour pedal race at Bristol last February; the team finished first in afield of 24, beating its nearest rival by eight miles. Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Rescue: As the Rescued See It
ON page 379 appears the account of the rescue, on 7th September, by the motor life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, of a dinghy, with a man and woman on board her, which was being carried out to sea. Here is a description of the same service—as...
Category: Services