LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Record of the Branches
LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
Category: Branches
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF attended...
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Meetings of Committee
1st July. T. WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
At a Special General Meeting of the Institution, convened pursuant to advertisement, confirmed the alterations in the Rules and Regulations as adopted at the previous Special...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
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Notes of the Quarter
BARMOUTH'S NEW 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat was named Princess of Wales by the Princess on November 25 in her first engagement for the RNLI. The Princess, accompanied by Prince Charles, was given an enthusiastic welcome by the large crowds...
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The Right Honourable Edward R G Heath Pc Mbe Mp Was Guest Speaker at the Afternoon Meeting and Also Presented the Awards With Him Seated Are the Duke Atholl Chairman of the Inst
The Right Honourable Edward R. G. Heath, PC MBE MP, was guest speaker at the afternoon meeting and also presented the awards. With him, seated, are the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Institution, and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
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Notes of the Quarter
A MAJOR new boat building programme was decided upon by the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, at its February meeting. As anA Sister's Thanks The following is an extract from a letter received by Captain J. B. Jones, O.B.E.,...
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When Col J. T. Benn the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands Attended the Annual Meeting of the Caister-On-Sea Branch In Norfolk He Presented a Silver Badge
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...
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