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Richard Dimbleby's Appeal

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...

Category: Articles

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

The Province of Northern Ireland improved its fund-raising in 1975 by 21 per cent; a sterling achievement in difficult times. The voluntary workers of Belfast raised no less than £11,000.

London flag day, Tuesday March...

Category: Donations

The Fundraisers

Date: Autumn 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 554

Bruno backs the lifeboats Harwich lifeboatmen had a very special visitor in August, when Frank Bruno came to town promoting the wacky gameshow 'It's a Knockout'. The former heavyweight boxing champ was backing the RNLI's...

Category: Articles

Working Together: Helicopters and Lifeboats

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee

Date: January 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 59

Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

Category: Committee

Margaret Armstrong: Life-Boat Heroine

Date: February 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 275

THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.

It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...

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Methods of Launching Life-Boats

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Chief Inspector of Life-boats (This paper was read at the 7th International Life-boat Conference held in Lisbon in June, 1955.) Ix Great Britain and Ireland the verv varying nature of the shore creates many problems, and the methods of...

Category: Articles

Shoreline

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS Shoreline has taken great strides forward. Our membership has grown faster than ever before, largely due to the support we are receiving from our members and, above all, from financial branches and guilds. We...

Category: Articles

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Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 23

Walmer and Deal, Kent.—A Branch of the National Life-Boat Institution, under the above title, has been recently founded at Walmer, and a 30-feet; life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, perfectly equipped both for sailing and rowing, and...

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