FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
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A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF
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THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
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A new experimental boat (see page 545) has been built for the Royal National Life-boat Institution with a glass-reinforced plastic (G.R.P.) hull and deck. The hull, which is a standard commercial one, was designed by T.T. Boat Designs Ltd.,...
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Seaman's Cartoonist extraordinary, Carl Giles, receiving his lifeboatman statuette for outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public relations from the Duke of Atholl.
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily... - View image in PDF
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The Revue Maritime el Coloniale recently published a letter on the deviations to which the needle is liable in consequence of the substitution of iron for wood in ships.
One of the latest contrivances for diminishing this...
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Sir—As an American reader of your fine publication, The Life-boat, I have long admired your organisation and its accomplishments. For some time I have been meaning to send you a small contribution toward the furtherance of your work as an...
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When Glenda Jackson CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport, visited RNLI HQ in August, Director Brian Miles presented her with a photograph of her grandfather, known as 'Father' Jackson - taken when he was a... - View image in PDF
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IN his Henry Blogg of Cromer (Harrap I5/-), Mr. Cyril Jolly has undertaken with considerable success the important task of writing the biography of the life-boat coxswain who received the most medals for gallantry and won the greatest...
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Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
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