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Sir William Arnold Guernsey's New 52' Arun Lifeboat Was Named By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at St.Peter Port on May 23; It Was the First Visit Made By the Duchess To
Sir William Arnold, Guernsey's new 52' Arun lifeboat, was named by HRH the Duchess of Kent at St Peter Port on May 23; it was the first visit made by the Duchess to Guernsey—on a day of sun and showers she was warmly welcomed by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1945
Life-boats rescued 553 lives in 1945. In the first four months, up to the end of the war, they rescued 223 lives. In the first eight months of peace they rescued 330. That is, they rescued 55 lives a month in the four months of war, and 41 a...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.
The Calendar.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...
Category: Advertisement
Hospital for Aged and Disabled Master Mariners and Seamen
MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.
INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GRANGR, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION sent last August a new life-boat and transporting- carriage to this station, in the place of those previously there, which were becoming unserviceable. The new boat is 30 feet long,...
Category: Articles
Change of Title of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the " ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—founded in 1824 for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck;" they may not,...
Category: Articles
Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
Category: Articles
Fund Raisers
Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calen- dar for next year. It is also issuing, for the first time, a Life-boat Christmas card, and we hope that readers of The Lifeboat will buy this calendar for their...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles