LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies - continued from page 55
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan PeacockWednesday 21 April 1993 saw the naming of the first of a new inshore lifeboat design, the Atlantic 75. Developed from the highly successful Atlantic 21 which has been in operation since 1972, the name...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd Sept., 1868. Sir EDWARD PER- ROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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Three Medals In Twelve Months.
Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...
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A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
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A Small Inflatable Dinghy and Ondine
Nine rescued A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY, With One man on board, was seen by HM Coastguard at 2018 on Sunday, July 4, some three miles north east of Beaumaris lifeboat station, drifting out to sea with the freshening offshore wind and ebbing...
The Fundraisers
Blackpool push the boat out Members of the Blackpool lifeboat crew and ladies guild quite literally pushed the boat out on 10 September 1995, raising over £167 for RNLI funds.
An inflatable D class lifeboat was pushed...
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Gay Gull and a Fishing Boat
TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.
on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not...
Having a Ball at the Hilton
Lady Beaverbrook, chairman of the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball, with Lord Beaverbrook at the Hilton Hotel. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Desmond O'Neill Features). - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Classified
FOR PERSONAL SERVICE Contact the Company with nearly forty years' experience in the manufacture of CLUB & COMPANY TIES Quantities from one dozen with printed motif, five dozen with woven motif, striped ties from three dozen. All...
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Hrh Prince Philip
HRH Prince Philip viewed the lifeboat collection in Chatham while visiting the Historic Dockyard in early 1995. The lifeboats had only recently arrived and were stored on a shingle base with simple information boards.. - View image in PDF
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