LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Appledore, Devon - At 5.30 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, a visitor informed the mechanic that a person had disappeared while swimming across the river Torridge.
At 5.40 the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker set out. It was thirty...
Friends of the RNLI
Renewable energy company Ørsted has pledged its support to the RNLI with a new 3-year partnership A global leader in offshore wind, Ørsted will donate more than £200,000 to fund the running costs of lifeboats at Barrow,...
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Imperial Publishing Limited
IMPERIAL PUBLISHING LTD Imperial Publishing Limited are very pleased to offer an exclusive opportunity to purchase a framed reproduction set of previously unissued cigarette cards depicting "The Story of the Lifeboat." These cards...
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A Royal Air Force Launch
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
For One Day During London Lifeboat Week In Hoth 1977 and 1978 Peter Elgar a Shoreline Member Set Up a Stand at British Airways Engineering West Base Heathro
For one day during London lifeboat week in hoth 1977 and 1978.
Peter Elgar, a Shoreline member, set up a stand at British Airways Engineering West Base. Heathrow Airport, using his own boat as centrepiece. In 1977 he and... - View image in PDF
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A personal reflection from Paul Boissier
The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade
When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...
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PC Arthur E Farley and Sgt Douglas H Carter of the Bournemouth Police
P.C. Arthur E. Farley and Sgt. Douglas H. Carter, of the Bournemouth police, who boarded a blazing motor-boat off Bournemouth on 19th May, 1968, and afterwards picked up three people. The service was described in the September issue of THE... - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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PATRONESS- HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
VICE PATRONESS—HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OT WALES.
VICE PATRONS-HIS ROYAL...
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Work/lifesaving balance
The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...
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Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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