LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, at 3 P.M., the Right Hon Stanley Baldwin, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, in...
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Shoreline
FEW PEOPLE are fortunate enough to work in offices with such a beautiful view as some Head Office staff are enjoying while in temporary accommodation at Poole Quay. The harbour at Poole, which is said to be the second largest natural harbour...
Category: Articles
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
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Shoreline
Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.
The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 11.—Mr. James Hartley Burton, Honorary Secretary of the Beaumaris Life-Boat Station
ME. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been Honorary Secretary of a Life-boat Station, first at Penmon in Anglesey —the Station was closed in 1915—and then at Beaumaris, for over 20 years.
He has brought to the work a life-long...
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A Tubular Life-Boat
The " Caroline Richardson " stationed at Rhyl from 1896 to 1939. She was the third and last of this type, which was designed in 1850. All three were at Rhyl. This type had a double hull, consisting of two floats, meeting at each... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Maxstoke Castle
Maxstoke Castle, near Colehill, is open to the public on only two days of the year, each time in aid of a charity. The turn of the RNLI (above) was a huge success when on a beautiful afternoon last July £1,795 was... - View image in PDF
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(Top Right) a Complete Atlantic 'service'
(top right) A complete Atlantic 'service' was staged each day. Starting with the launch, seen here, and taking in the spectacular net recovery in the DoDo (Drive on Drive off) trolley it finished with the turning and repositioning of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs