LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th March, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be...
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Tribute to Life-Boat Designer
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
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Books
Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .
Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...
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Feature: Train One, Save Many
'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...
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Special delivery
‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’
Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1909.
The Right Hon. the EARL OF HARDWICKE in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd October, 1884.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P,, in the Chair.! Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and j Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- '...
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