LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the Eight Honourable The LORD MAYOR of London, on Monday, the 8th clay of April, 1872, CAPTAIN His ROYAL HIGHNESS...
Category: Annual Reports
Help from Overseas
THE honorary secretary of the Bexhill- on-Sea branch recently sent out a personal appeal to his own friends.
The result was nearly £21, and subscrip- tions came to him from as far afield as Switzerland, India and...
Category: Donations
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.
Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...
Category: Services
Dry Run for a Lifeboat!
Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF
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Continued from Page 175
Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
£17,000 from South Africa.
The Southern African Branch, which was formed at a meeting at the end of February, 1942, had within a year sent the Institution £9,000 out of the £11,000 which it aims to raise in order to provide a motor life-boat to be named...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Boat Show 1995 Once again the RNLI will be at the London Boat Show at Earls Court from 4-15 January inclusive. The show always proves a successful way of recruiting new members and, of course, current members are very welcome to come along...
Category: Articles
70-Year-Old Jane Trembath
70-year-old Jane Trembath on her epic row down the River Dart, escorted by Torbay's new D class inflatable, and (inset) Jane at the oars during her 25-mile fund raising trip.
(Inset photo courtesy Western Morning... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Libby Purves Introduces All at Sea During the Launching of the Book By Fontana
Libby Purves, introduces All at Sea, during the launching of the book by Fontana and the RNLI at The Marine Society on March 5. With her are (r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, and (I) Ray Kipling, public relations officer,... - View image in PDF
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Three Medallists from Tenby
The coxswain, motor mechanic and bowman visit London to receive medals (see page 705). - View image in PDF
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