LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
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Louis Sheid and Tajandoen
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT LIFE-BOATMEN
Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth, has close contacts with the R.N.L.I., and when an essay competition on life-boatmen was held for members of the junior church there was a good response.
The following are extracts: 'The...
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Cover Picture
Volume L Number 501 RNLI News.
Lifeboat Services.
Training in focus, with the 1987 medallists.
187 189 194 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...
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Brooks & Bentley
The heartfelt words of the acclaimed poem 'Footprints' by Margaret Fishback Powers have brought comfort and hope to millions around the world. And now in glorious recognition of this wonderful verse, the master goldsmiths of Brooks...
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Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, at 3 P.M., the Right Hon Stanley Baldwin, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, in...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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