LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
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Enfant de Bretagne
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1877, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.,...
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La Fee des Ondes
Peel, Isle of Man. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 26th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a French trawler was ashore on Peel Island. At 1.40 the life- boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was...
Gifts from Four Centuries
Among money which has come in collecting boxes during the war have been coins not only of George vi, George v and Edward vn, but of Queen Victoria, William IV, George IV, George in, Queen Anne and Charles II..
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MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...
Notre-Dame de la Sallete
Dover, Kent. At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Boulogne that the trawler Notre-Dame de la Sallete of Boulogne was on the Sandettie bank with her trawl nets...
In celebration of 2010
On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
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Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
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Annual Report. 1897
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 27th day of March, 1897, The Eight Hon.
Gr. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord...
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