LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
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Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
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Life-Boat Oars
LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
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Another Record Year for the Life-Boats
BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...
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(Continued from page 224) approved by the medical and survival committee, under the chairmanship of Surgeon Rear Admiral Ian Colley.
The search and rescue and executive committees of the RNLI each gave the suit their...
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Following the Example of Henley-On-Thames Branch
Following the example of Henley-on-Thames branch (THE LIFEBOAT, winter 1981/82) Lymington branch held a car boot sale last August Bank Holiday Sunday in Lymington Town Hall car park. Cars were charged at £4 each, with no charge to... - View image in PDF
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St.Ives Lions Club Has Chosen As Its Special Project for 1977 the Funding of a Replacement Ilb for the Lifeboat Station; Club Members With Lifeboatmen and Branch Offici
St Ives Lions Club has chosen as its special project for 1977 the funding of a replacement ILB for the lifeboat station; club members with lifeboatmen and branch officials are already making slipway collections, teddy bears are being raffled... - View image in PDF
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St.Peter Port Lifeboat Crew Formed the Guard of Honour As Her Majesty the Queen Embarked In Her Barge to Rejoin Hmy Britannia at the End of Her Visit to Guernsey O
St Peter Port lifeboat crew formed the guard of honour as Her Majesty The Queen embarked in her barge to rejoin HMY Britannia at the end of her visit to Guernsey on Wednesday June 28. Her Majesty spoke to every crew member, asking about the... - View image in PDF
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Fig 2: Forward Well Note Twin Engine Coolers Fitted Into Bilges and Also Aluminium Vent Trunks at Forward End of Well Sides Which Will Route Air from the Wing Compartm
Fig. 2: Forward well. Note twin engine coolers fitted into bilges and also aluminium vent trunks at forward end of well sides which will route air from the wing compartments through to lower part of forward end box. Benches run down each... - View image in PDF
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Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
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