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The Life-Boat Journal
The Life-boat appears again after an absence of just seven years. Its last number was dated April, 1940. In that month Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. At the end of the next month the British Expeditionary Fotce was brought off from the...
Category: Articles
The Late Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., K.C.V.O.
THE subscribers and friends of the | At the meeting of the Committee of ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION- Management next following the death will have heard with great regret of Sir Edward Birkbeck, held on the that Sir Edward Birkbeck,...
Category: Obituaries
Jubilee Review (Continuedfrom Page 55)
(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...
Category: Articles
Peter Williams a Slitting Mill Primary School Boy Who at the Age of 6 Was Successful In the 'Blue Peter' Life-Boat Poster Competition (The Life-Boat December 1969) Pict
Peter Williams, a Slitting Mill primary school boy, who at the age of 6 was successful in the 'Blue Peter' life-boat poster competition (THE LIFE-BOAT, December, 1969), pictured with his mother, Mrs. Heather Williams (left), when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Museums and Display Centres By Richard Mann Display Manager
THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Coastville and Hope Star
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT DONAGHADEE NOVEMBER 21ST. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 6.20 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Donaghadee life-boat station that a steamer was ashore at Ballymacormick Point in Belfast Lough. A gale was...
Captain Howard Rowley, R.N.
ALL who were connected with the Lifeboat Service twenty years ago will have heard with regret of the death, on the 4th -of April, of Captain Howard Fiennes Julius Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
He was in his eightieth year, and it...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—On the appli- cation of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat Establishment at Giles' Quay, on the north side of Dundalk Bay, it having been considered that a Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th Jan., 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Late on the Aflernoon of August 8 the Needles Coastguard Alerted the Search and Rescue Flight Hms Daedalus That a Boat Was In Difficulties In Totland Bay Isle Of
Late on the aflernocn of August 8, the Needles Coastguard alerted the Search ami Rescue Flight, HMS Daedalus, that a boat was in difficulties in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight. An aircraft was scrambled to go to the scene. However, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs