LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OUR 601'IE FOR EXAMPLE, HAS LAM/A/ArgD MBTAi COMPRESSION RINGS, D/STDRT/ON-RES/STAHT ONE-P/eCE IKON ALLOY CAST CYLINDER HEAD WITH...
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The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1875
Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...
Category: Articles
Prize Winning Essay
Miss SUSAN JANICE PRICE, of Greaves County Secondary School, Lancaster, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.
Other Prizes The prizes for the best...
Category: Articles
Danger of Climbing the Mast of An Open Boat
N the 10th number of this Journal, we remarked on a boat accident, attended with loss of life, which had then recently occurred, through a person climbing the mast of a small boat, and we strongly urged the rash- ness and danger of such a...
Category: Articles
Rnli (Tunbridge Wells) Record Offer
THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT WE OFFER THIS OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE ON LAST YEAR'S POPULAR SUCCESS A 12 L.P. of 18 Christmas Carols recorded in Stereo by the Coptilar G h i i ' • • , (. uoki IM CK il xxi' iwi' IVfci- CNtr FOREST...
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Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1963 has been won by Mechanic Joseph Houlihan of Valentia for the rescue single-handed of two men on 2nd September. A full account of the service...
Category: Awards
Imagine the Sealed Orange Superstructure As a Permanently Inflated Air Bag'
Imagine the sealed orange superstructure as a permanently inflated air bag' and it is easier to imagine the upward lorce it is generating as this Tyne class hleooai rolls upright. This view also shows how the height of the upperworks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It Is Not Often That a Champion Fighter Pilot Asks to Look Round One of Our Life-Boats. In This Picture, Taken Some Time Ago, But Only Recently Made Available to the Life-Boat, Group Captain Dougl
It is not often that a champion fighter pilot asks to look round one of our life-boats. In this picture, taken some time ago, but only recently made available to THE LIFE-BOAT, Group Captain Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., the legless... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs