LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
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Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton
IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
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Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories Holy Island Lifeboats by Brian Chandler published by the author at £3.50 For such a small island, only a few hundred yards off the coast of Northumberland, Holy Island has a packed and fascinating history -...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
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Talvaldis
JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
The Life-Boat Services of the World: The United States Coast Guard
By REAR-ADMIRAL W. S. REYNOLDS, Commandant U.S. Coast Guard.Anderson tendered his services to the surf man. The acceptance of the offer automatically placed Anderson, for the time, in charge of the station crew, a responsibility which, as...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 20th April, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported that His Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G., had agreed to become acting president of the Institution during the absence in...
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Rnli News
A Topping idea...
It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...
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County Associations
As already mentioned, one of the chief features of this Journal will be to bring into prominent notice the several County Asso- ciations and Local Committees that have long existed around our coasts, and to urge on the well-wishers to the...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
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