LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Development of the Lifeboat from Page 58
from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
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Royal Visits
Top) HRH The Duchess of Kent talks to crew and station personnel at Pwllheli lifeboat station during her tour. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Westley Photography. - View image in PDF
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Super-Quality of Life-Boats. Some Examples from the Recent Gales
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...
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Four Men Saved from Trawler
FOR the rescue of four men from a trawler on the evening of 16th November, 1969, Coxswain John King of Bridlington has been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum.
At 6.5 p.m. that evening Mr. A. W. Dick,...
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Acteon
Dover, Kent.—At 3.10 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making heavy weather about a mile south-east of Leather- cotes. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.15 in a...
Destined for Life-Boat Stations All Over the U.K., the First Ever Delivery of Martell Cognac Was Recently Received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood,
Destined for life-boat stations all over the U.K., the first ever delivery of Martell cognac was recently received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood, Herts. Taken in the depot's rigging loft, the picture shows (left to right)... - View image in PDF
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Golden Charter
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Golden Charter
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