LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
By Invitation: Kirkwall's 70 Foot Clyde Class Lifeboat Visits the Faroe Islands
IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1889
matters connected with the sea must necessarily be of deep interest to the population of a great maritime nation such as ours, dependent to so great an extent, even for the common necessaries of life, on those that " go down to the sea...
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The Fundraisers
Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, '* L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
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Income and Expenditure for 1927
Lite-boats:- EXPENDITURE. t s. a. £ New Life-boats for the following stations : — On account — Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Piel (Barrow), Rosslare Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness, Swanage, and Walton-on-Naze, etc 33,252 7 3 Provision of...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1902
WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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New Ways of Raising Money
A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...
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When rescue services are called out in extremely rough weather conditions, confidence is assured when supported by a lifeboat thats tough & reliable. FBM have been building tough and reliable boats for many years, since 1929 one hundred...
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