LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FALMOUTH. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at this port. Although the harbour of Falmouth is of a land-locked character, yet there are occasions when disasters occur in its immediate vicinity...
Category: Articles
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1950.
£ «. d.
18 7 6 M. _M _HM Subscriptions, Dona- tions, Collecting, Boxes.
11 10 8 _ _...
Category: Accounts
Mr. H. C. Whitehead, Appledore
Mr. H. C. Whitehead. of Appledore, who died on October 2()th, had been for thirty years one of the most devoted and successful station honorary secre- taries. He became honorary secretary of the Appledore station in 1901, and held that post...
Category: Obituaries
GIVE IT A GO: COASTAL FORAGING
All around us, ancient varieties of food are just waiting to be rediscovered. From leaves like samphire and sea spinach to seaweeds, blackberries, beech nuts and violets – you’ll be amazed at the abundance and...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 150 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 151 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE R.N.L.I. . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CALENDARS . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 BIRTHDAY HONOURS . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 167 FINANCIAL...
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Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...
Category: Awards
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...
Category: Articles
Classified Advertisements
Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre (minimum charge £16.50. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
Category: Advertisement