LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Luck of the draw The 45th lottery draw took place on Sunday 30 April at RNLI Headquarters and was attended by a coach party of voluntary workers from the Dudley Branch.
Mrs Felicity Irwin, Public Affairs Executive for TVS,...
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Prince of Wales' Day In London
PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...
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Notes and News. By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution
THE severe storms which visited the British Isles during December last were marked by a number of splendid services, and in the case of the Fish- guard Life-boat by one of the finest anywhere on the coast in recent...
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General Practitioner on the Lifeboat By O C Parry- Jones Honorary Medical Adviser Moelfre
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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The United States' Life-Saving Service
IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...
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Rugged In the Extreme Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick By Joan Davies
In winter, on ten to fifteen days out of every month, winds will blow at force 7 or above around the north-eastern tip of Scotland. The waters of the Pentland and Moray Firths are some of the most notorious in the world. The mainland...
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Statistically Speaking
The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...
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Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
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A Hundred Years Ago
AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...
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Celestina
At 7.45 P.M. on the 1st October the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was called out by flares and rockets which had been seen in a north- easterly direction. About two miles from the east Margate buoy they found the schooner Celestina, of...