By A DE LABORDETTE, Surgeon to the Hospital of Laisieux, Knight of the Legion of Honour.
THE laryngoscope has been the subject of a favourable report made to the Imperial Academy of Medicine by Professor...
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"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
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MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...
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Midland Bank prepares for pay-in of the Parker Pen four foot long tlflOO cheque in the shape of RMS Queen Elizabeth. (/. to r.) James Matter, director, Parker Pen Company, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman, RNLI Fund Raising... - View image in PDF
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THURSDAY, 12th January, 1911.
Colonel Sir FitzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the minutes of the three previous meetings.
Also read those of the Building,...
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Below: By the time an engine has been waterproofed, it will have cost the RNLI twice its original price. Photo Bob Kennovin.. - View image in PDF
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During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...
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theLifeboat asks Ian Ventham, former head of fundraising and marketing, to reflect on his time at the fundraising helm and we speak to his successor, David Brann, on his vision for the future.Ian What notable changes in fundraising have you...
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100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, May 1890 issue THE LIFE-BELT USED BY THE CREWS OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are:- 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy...
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Winning hunch The winner of the RNLI's 44th national lottery has the Hunchback of Notre Dame to thank for drawing her ticket! Micky O'Donoughue was playing the role in the New Vic Company's comedy version of 'The Hunchback of...
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