LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Day In London. The Prince of Wales's Tour of the Depots
LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...
Category: Articles
Taste of the Past
Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Rail Journeys
Canada Coast to Coast Vancouver to the Rockies and Nova Scotia Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialist on this epic 18-day journey across Canada. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit...
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Finance In 1942.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1942 was £291,486. That was £12,261 more than in 1941, but much less than in a year of peace. The reason is that while in the last year of peace 16 new motor life-boats were sent to the coast, last year not one - out...
Category: Articles
2014: A year in numbers
In 2014, RNLI lifeboats launched 8,462 times and our busiest station was Tower on the River Thames, with 543 launches.
Volunteer lifeboat crews rescued 8,727 people – an increase from 2013’s 8,384 rescues – with 368...
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Mr. E. J. Bluett, Isles of Scilly
Mr. Edmund J. Bluett, who died on llth January last, was Honorary Secre- tary of the Scilly Islands Branch for thirty-six years. He was appointed in May, 1882, and retired in September, 1918. During those thirty-six years the Life-boats...
Category: Obituaries
Feature Zetland Lifeboat - 200 Years
The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...
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A Place In the Boat
A UPE-BOAT MAN'S SONG.
A mild wind, or a wild wind, a sky of blue or black, The boat must go and we must row to the rocky bar and back— To the rooky bar and back, boys, where the breakers boom and roar; But...
Category: Songs
The Centenary: In North Wales
ANGLESEY AND CARNARVON- SHIRE.
Colwyn Bay.
Colwyn Bay had a Life-boat Proces- sion and Carnival on 24th August, when the town was full of visitors. The Life- boat from Llanddulas, drawn by a tractor,...
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Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
By LIEUT-GENERAL SIR HENRY MERRICK LAWSON, K.C.B.
[A short account of Major Burton's career and,, in...
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