LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th November, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• £ a. d.
ANONYMOUS 50 - - MK. FREDERICK...
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People and Places
Naval Architect dies Naval Architect Jack Tyrrell of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland died suddenly on 29 July 1988 at the age of 83.
Jack Tyrrell was one of Ireland's most imaginative naval architects, and in 1964 won...
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Papal Blessing
RNLI Chief Executive Paul Boissier had the honour of meeting Pope Benedict XVI and HM The Queen on 16 September during a Papal visit to Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
Paul joined a number of charity bosses and heads of...
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Additional Stations, and New Life-Boats
Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...
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ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
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A Rubber Dinghy from a Wellington Bomber
OCTOBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 14th April, 1916.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.C., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes...
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Pushed to the Limit
Pictured: Back l-r Paul Spratt, Matthew Crow and Stewart Olley, the crew of the Vic and BHtie Whiften. Front l-r Launcher Matthew Fosset with the crew of the Ethel Royal, Michael Whistler and Tony Bonham. - View image in PDF
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Adamantios J. Pithis
JANUARY 27TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
The Greek steamer Adamantios J. Pithis, of Chios, had been totally wrecked at St. Ann’s Head, but a naval patrol vessel had picked up the crew. - Rewards, £8 18s.
In stark contrast to Barry Dock's A class lifeboat, Margaret Frances
in stark contrast to Barry Dock's Ai class lifeboat, Margaret Frances Lc the pulling and sailing lifeboat, due Victoria, takes a trip alongside Barf waterfront during the centenary celebrations.. - View image in PDF
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