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The Editor Retires

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.

His appointment as editor...

Category: Articles

Across the Years

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

50 years ago the RNLI linked the Battle of Britain with the Isle of Man Fifty years ago this autumn, at a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday 3 September 1940, the emotionless voice of an airfield controller scrambled a small group of...

Category: Articles

Broquet In Tank Catalysts

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

cc Broquet Reduces fuel consumption and Increases engine power.

It has been approved by the Ambulance Service, the DTI and Mr Bishop from Solihull Simply dropped into the fuel tank, Broquet transforms the performance and...

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Arcade

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

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Your Letters

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Let's campaign to improve safety at sea! As an RNLI member, I was interested to read the Director's message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT and the Newspoint on page 147 suggesting that the RNLI is at last looking at ways to...

Category: Correspondence

The Weather of 1886. Abridged from the Daily News, 1st January, 1887

Date: February 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 143

The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.

Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...

Category: Articles

NEW YEAR – NEW KNOWLEDGE

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 618 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2016/17

Start 2017 by boosting your maritime knowledge.
Our collection of New Year reads will also give you plenty of
impressive facts to share at what’s left of the festive party season!

For salty...

Category: Articles

Annual Report

Date: May 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 16

AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...

Category: Annual Reports

The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collection

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.

The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...

Category: Branches

Centenary of the North Sunderland Station

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

NORTH SUNDERLAND has had a life-boat station since 1827. It was taken over by the Institution in 1852. Beyond the date of its establishment, and the fact that between 1827 and 1852 it had two life-boats, the second of which was transferred...

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