LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 8. Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury and District Branch
MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
Category: Articles
Letters
Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
Category: Correspondence
The New 47-Feet Life-Boat
A NEW 47-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of her kind, completed her trials during the summer of 1955. She has now been sent to her station at Thurso, Caithness-shire.
The new life-boat is a development of the 46-feet...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
IT is ALWAYS pleasing to report that one of our Shoreline clubs has been actively involved in fund raising. Such a club is No 8 at Peterborough which, in conjunction with the local RNLI branch, ran a very successful SOS day in Ferry Meadows...
Category: Articles
Commercial Union
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Category: Advertisement
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Some Ways of Raising Money
Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...
Category: Articles
When the Duke of Atholl a Deputy Chairman of the Institution Visited Workington Last Year He Met Members of the Crew and Also Officers and Members of Both Workin
When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girls and Boys from Connah's Quay Held a Sponsored Swim and Raised £15432 a Cheque for This Amount Was Presented to Mrs E L Coppack Secretary of the Conn
Girls and boys from Connah's Quay held a sponsored swim and raised £154.32. A cheque for this amount was presented to Mrs E. L. Coppack, secretary of the Connah's Quay branch, at the pool side.
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Category: Photographs