LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
United States Life-Saving Service
It appears from the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1893, issued a few months since from the Government Printing Office at Washington, that there are now 243...
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The Life-Boat Exhibit In the Court of Heroes, Government Building, at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925
The Life-Boat Exhibit In The Court of Heroes Government Building at The British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1925. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
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Appledore Ladies' Guild
Appledore ladies' guild celebrated 50 years of service in 1982. The guild was formed in 1931 and the photograph on the left was taken of the committee members in 1932. Haifa century on and (below left) are the members of the presentday... - View image in PDF
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News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station*.
CLACTON.—On 2Ist February, Dr.
J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ended 3Qth September, 1924, showed that £200 had been collected...
Category: Branches
The 18Th International Conference
The 18th International Conference Delegates representing 27 different countries were given a very full programme to follow during the 18th International Lifeboat Conference held in the week of the flotilla at the Royal Bath Hotel in...
Category: Meetings
The Importance of the System of Electrical Communication Established on the Coast for Life-Saving Purposes
IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
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The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Fourth Annual Report
IT is now four years since the establishment of this Institution ; and the Committee, in making their Fourth Annual Report, beg leave to state, that they have continued to pursue the measures which they have deemed best calculated to effect...
Category: Annual Reports
Family Life at Spurn Head So Far from Civilisation Is Very Important and the Children Are Constantly Remembered Here Father Christmas Arrives With Gifts Greeted Hy Som
Family life at Spurn Head so far from civilisation is very important and the children are constantly remembered. Here Father Christmas arrives with gifts greeted hy some of the youngsters.
by courtesy of 'Yorkshire... - View image in PDF
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