LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Life-Boats
As briefly reported in the July edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, The Duke of Windsor, who died on 28th May, 1972, was for many years actively associated with the R.N.L.I., especially between 1919 and 1936 when he served as President of the...
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On the Very Hot Sunny Day of June 6 Mrs Irene Carrington Wife of the President of the St.Ives Huntingdonshire Rotary Club Named the New D Class Ilb for Wells Station
On the very hot, sunny day of June 6, Mrs Irene Carrington, wife of the president of the St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Rotary Club, named the new D class ILB for Wells station Spirit of Rotary, pouring champagne over her bows. The St Ives branch... - View image in PDF
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Annual Report. 1906
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...
Category: Annual Reports
Great Rail Journeys
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Lifeboat Lottery
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...
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Fig 6:
Fig 6: Deckhouse and cabin ventilation is protected from sea water by a combined capsize or anti-flooding air intake valve developed by the RNLI design office. When all is well, air coming in passes through a perforated box, B, past the open...
Category: Drawings
Melinda Muriel
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
Their Business In Great Waters. Mr. Louis N. Parker's Life-Boat Play
WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...
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Buxton Branch
During a visit to Derbyshire branches last September Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, was entertained to lunch by Buxton branch at the home of its chairman Mrs Helen Garrioch (fourth from left, front... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs