LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hong Kong Branch
To mark the First Year of operations of the new Penlee Arun'Class Lifeboat, the R.N.LB.
Mabel Alice and the Hong Kong Branch of the R.N.L.I,the Branch has produced a Limited-Edition Print as shown.
The...
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At Duke's Funeral
The former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., represented the Institution at the funeral on 5th June of the Duke of Windsor, who was President of the R.N.L.I. from 1919 to 1936..
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Stations I His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.Gk HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA, DUKE OF EDINBURGH,...
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Feature New Kids on the Block
The unprecedented events of 29 June 2000 sum up the brief history of Crosshaven lifeboat station. At around 6.30pm that day Owen Medland, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Ireland, made the final phone call which turned Atlantic...
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Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence
A Brave Swimmer. Award of Bronze Medal
Ix the early afternoon of 27th August last a small steamer. Kendy, of Cardiff, got into difficulties off Porthcawl in Glamorganshire, and foundered. The Crew took to the boat, but it capsized, and, with the men clinging to it, drifted...
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Shoreline
ONCE AGAIN, to look back at the Boat Show is to look back on eleven happy and successful days. With the help of volunteer Shoreline members on the RNLI stand and of our friends at the Midland Bank stand, we enrolled 528 new members and a...
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Lively Hope
Workington, Cumberland.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 5th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat had made flares north of Workington pier, and at nine o'clock the life-boat N.T. left her...
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
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A Sales Caravan Sited on Poole Quay During the Summer Has Not Only Provided a Test-Bed for New Souvenir Lines Such As T-Shirts and Anorak Badges But It Is Also a Popula
A sales caravan sited on Poole Quay during the summer has not only provided a test-bed for new souvenir lines, such as T-shirts and anorak badges, but it is also a popular information bureau for lifeboat affairs and local... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs