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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated &y Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
Category: Advertisement
Introducing the Shannon class lifeboat
We’re delighted to announce that our next all-weather lifeboat class, due on station in 2013, will be called the Shannon. We’ve been naming lifeboats after rivers or stretches of water for 45 years, but this is the first time the name of an...
Category: Articles
William F G Lord OBE BL
William F. G. Lord, QBE, BL, who was secretary and treasurer of Edinburgh branch from 1950 to 1964 and then secretary until 1976. Mr Lord became vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council in 1966, a position he...
Category: Obituaries
A Photograph Taken Alter the Service on 28th October, Showing the Damage on the Port Side
A Photograph Taken Alter The Service On 28Th October Showing The Damage on the Port Side. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Wide Aisle, With Engines to the Right and Prop Shafts to the Left
Above: The wide aisle, with engines to the right and prop shafts to the left. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Irish Motor Torpedo Boat M. 4
Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—During the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1950, the Helvick Head life-boat, H. F. Bailey, was on passage from Baltimore, expecting to call at Ballycotton. About 4.50, a searchlight...
Jack Simpson (R) Is Photographed Before He Embarks on His 100 Length Sponsored Swim at St.Dunstan's Pool Ovingdean Which Raised About £400 for the Rnli This Was a Remarkable Achieve
Jack Simpson (r.) is photographed before he embarks on his 100 length sponsored swim at St Dunstan's Pool, Ovingdean which raised about £400 for the RNLI. This was a remarkable achievement particularly as Mr Simpson is blind. Bill... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Philip Biidden Jonathan Makins and Richard and Simon Folkes from Charterhouse School Hand Over a Cheque for £1110 to Commander Swann Chairman
Philip Biidden, Jonathan Makins and Richard ami Simon Folkcs, from Charterhouse School, hand over a cheque for i.1,110 to Commander /•'. ./? H. Swann, Chairman of the RNLI. They, with Sehan Anketall (who was unable to be present), raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adams of the Goodwin Sands
" Bill" Adams of the Goodwins died at Deal in 1926. The tempestuous weather round our coasts which heralded 1930 has spoken loudly to us of him and of his dauntless successors.
I WILL ADAMS of the Goodwin Sands !...
Category: Poetry
The Spittal Private Salvage Boat Margaret Dadds
About 7 A.M. on the 4th January, a fog-horn was heard to the southward by the fishermen and they at once assem- bled to man the Life-boat. Confirmation by the Coastguard was received that a steamer was in distress and the Life-boat Matthew...