LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
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News and Views
Architect's plans showing the proposed RNLI training college, which will provide multi-purpose training on a single site.Securing the futureThe RNLI is moving forward on a number of key initiatives included in the RNLI Plan for 2000 and...
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The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.6 in the morning of the 20th of November, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had been badly injured on the Royal Sovereign Lightvessel. After further information had been obtained the motor life-boat Jane...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—A yawl belonging to Wexford broke adrift on the night of the 27th May, 1902. A strong gale from W.S.W. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy sea. Owing to the stress of weather the crew were unable to make the...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Tbtf-gura refer to the numbtn of the Hfc-boatl detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 131. ., 195, 241, 267. oman. E. Esq., 118. ooley, G. Esq., the late, 266, A Lady, 16. )almer, Mrs. the late, 11. onourable Artillery...
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People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
On the morning of the 1st December rockets were fired from the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel. The Life-boat put off, and on reaching the light-ship found that one of her crew had fallen from the shrouds attached to the shaft on which the...
Some Account of the Growth of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's Fleet Since the Re-Organization of the Society In 1850. III. (1886-1896)
IN the February 1896 number of the Life-boat Journal it will be remembered that the account of the growth of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION'S fleet of Life-boats was brought up to 1885, the fleet then consisting of 284 boats....
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