LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Centenary Dinner
A DINNER in celebration of the Institu- tion's Centenary was held at the Hotel Cecil, on 2nd July, 1924. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. (the Institution's President) presided, and those present numbered 478, among them being...
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Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1864, after making exhaustive inquiries extending over some years, the Committee of Management • of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued to all its Lifeboat stations the regulations for the restoration of the...
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The Arklow Fishing Boat Pride of Kilmichael
APRIL 12TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 in the morning a fishing boat at anchor in the South Shear was seen to be flying a distress signal, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A north-westerly...
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December, 1938
Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
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Artistry In Cornwall And Whitby
Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...
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Kitty
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of May, 1955, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a boat had been reported in dis- tress and making heavy weather in the Rock Channel. At 12^.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Two Dinghies (3)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
A Dinghy (11)
Plymouth, Devon. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th September, 1961, the coastguard told the cox- swain's wife that a small dinghy had capsized about a hundred yards off Gara Point and that a man was in the water. The...
A Steamer (11)
DEC. 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS. A steamer had been reported sunk by enemy action twenty miles E.S.E. of Scurdyness, but no trace of her could be found - Rewards, £31 11s. 6d..