LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boat Sailing and Sails
IT might be objected that remarks in the nature of hints or suggestions on boat sailing are " coals to Newcastle" to those who manage the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to a considerable extent such...
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Mercantile Credit
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Special rates on loans to buy what you want- now! Every loan a RNLI member takes out, under a special arrangement with Mercantile Credit Company Limited, means a welcome donation to the...
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On 5Th May, 1943, the Wells Life-Boat Took Part In An Interesting Service In Which the R.A.F. for the First Time Dropped An Airborne Life-Boat to a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew Off the East Anglian Coast. Th
On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
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Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th March, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be...
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People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
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Pupils Steel the Day
A team from the Medway branch held its flag day in Strood and Rochester in March, raising £1,122 -a £400 increase on last year.. - View image in PDF
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Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
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A Dutch fairground organ, 65 years old, has recently raised over £50 for the R.N.L.I.
A Dutch fairground organ, 65 years old, has recently raised over £50 for the R.N.L.I. It belongs to Mr. A. B. Mason of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and travels round the Brancaster area towed by a land rover, with Mr. Mason in... - View image in PDF
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