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Our Inland Branches. Rochdale
ROCHDALE is built on both banks of the River Roach, whence it derives its name; but the Rochdale of the present day differs widely from that of barely one hundred years ago. Then this quaint old town of industry and traffic occupied a...
Category: Articles
Letters
Dear Editor I read Nick Page's letter regarding inflatable toys [the Lifeboat Summer 2006] with much fellow feeling. Being both a harbour master and an RNLI deputy launching authority I dislike these things with something close to a...
Category: Correspondence
The Last Bulletin
This is the last life-boat bulletin. The first appeared in September 1940 and it has appeared quarterly since then. Of the twenty-six bulletins published nearly a quarter of a million copies have been printed. The Institution's quarterly...
Category: Articles
Living on the edge
Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...
Category: Articles
Henry Browne & Son Ltd.
COMPASSES AND NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT TO THE R.N.L.I.
FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses, HENRY BROWNE I SON LTD.
Compass Craftsmen since 1885 Sales...
Category: Advertisement
(Right) from Lifeboat Crew to Helicopter Crew: Presentation of 150th Anniversary Commemorative Mugs During Joint Exercise of Wells Lifeboat and Raf Coltishall Helicopter
(Right) From lifeboat crew to helicopter crew: presentation of 150th anniversary commemorative mugs during joint exercise of Wells lifeboat and RAF Coltishall helicopters.
More than 20,000 of these anniversary mugs made by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ice-Bound
The new Motor Life-boat for the Humber arriving at Newhaven from Cowes on February 13th, 1929, d u r i n g the severe frost.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Functional Clothing Ltd
THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS CONDENSATION ARE WATERPROOF FREE FROM LU ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Letter of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) • Your company'...
Category: Advertisement
Central Appeals (From Page 102)
Central Appeals (from page 102) being December 31, 1974. In this way it is hoped to raise enough money to have a lifeboat 'owned' by the knitters.
A circular is available on the knit-in.
For those...
Category: Committee
Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence