LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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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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...
A Launching Accident
ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...
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The Life-Boat Service and the Fishing Fleets
The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...
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Record of the Branches
The 20 Branches with the Highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending 30th September,...
Category: Branches
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
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The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
The Sailing Barges May and Portlight (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About noon on the 21st of February, 1955, a wireless message was received from the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, which had been launched to the sailing barges May, of Ipswich, and Portlight, of Harwich, which each had...
Three Rowing Boats and a Motor Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
Luncheon Clubs
LUNCHEON CLUBS associated with the Life-boat Service have become increasingly popular in recent years in Yorkshire. The first ladies' life-boat luncheon club was established at Leeds, and there are now similar clubs in Bradford,...
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