LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...
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Meetings of Committee
6th May. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, held on the 22nd April; also of the previous monthly Meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward...
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Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letters from the...
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The Life-Saving Stations of the World
IT is hoped to publish in the next issue of The Li/eboat an article on a " List of Life-saving Stations of the World, with their Equipment and Geographical Positions," issued by the International Hydrographic Bureau at Monaco, in...
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The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
TO MARK THE FRIENDSHIP and mutual goodwill shown during the bicentennial celebrations of the American Declaration of Independence a number of leading Americans in Britain have decided to appeal to their fellow citizens to provide a new...
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Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, February llth, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Mrs. Helen Davis, 100 £1 Preference shares in the Lady Workers'...
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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 September, 1955 79,860 Notes of the Quarter THE first good summer which Britain and...
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Notes of the Quarter
ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...
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The Duchess of Kent and the Widows of the Mumbles
WHEN the Duchess of Kent visited Swansea on the 29th of October to attend the Festival of Music, she met the widows of the life-boatmen of The Mumbles who lost their lives when the life-boat capsized on the 23rd of April,...
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