LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brooks & Bentley
T H E BEAU FORT M A S T E R C H R O N O G R A P H W A T C H The ultim timepiece...
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In a dramatic tribute to the power and force of nature's toughest and most volatile...
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Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service (1)
GRACE DARLING. An early Life-boat heroine.
In 1838, she and her father rescued nine people stranded on a rock, survivors from the wrecked ship For far- shire, of Dundee. They won Silver Medals.
(From the...
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Lifeboat Stamps
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
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List of Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Fred Olsen Lines
T KE A STERN LOOK AT A NEW HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE Are you ready for a revolutionary concept in holidays? A new idea that makes the rest look limited and conventional? An adventure that takes all the best features of existing holidays - and...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock 'and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
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Today's Lifeboatwomen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 30 May 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 785 times (an average of some 5 launches a day) More than 215 lives were saved (an average of 1.5 people rescued each...
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August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
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High Seas
More bird's eye views of RNLI lifeboat stations.Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices: Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in - £27.03,...
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Shoreline
THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS submitted to the Institution's governors at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 15 showed that Shoreline had contributed £934,400 to the RNLI's funds in 1983, an increase of more than £165,000. At...
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