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The S.S. Torni, of Liverpool

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At two in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Torni, of Liverpool, had gone aground several miles south of Whitby Lighthouse. A fresh easterly breeze was blowing, with a...

Never on Holiday

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

RNLI lifeguards save lives on beaches around the UK and sometimes ‘Down Under’, but their skills can be called into practice in far more unusual locations.Kirstin Prisk was 7 hours into a fl ight from London to New York when he noticed...

Category: Articles

The Wreck of the "Oceana."

Date: August 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 245

" Newlyn," Cole Park, Twickenham.

March 20th, 1912.

THE SECRETARY, N. L.-B. INSTITUTION.

DEAR SIR, I should like to bring to your notice the valuable assistance rendered ( to me...

Category: Correspondence

Busiest Year Yet

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.

Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...

Category: Articles

In September 1969 the RNLI Placed Its First Order for New Fast Boats to Be Built With Grp (Glass Reinforced Plastic) Hulls Known As the Mclachlan the Initial Batch W

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

In September, 1969, the R.N.L.I, placed its first order for new fast boats to be built with GRP (glass reinforced plastic) hulls. Known as the McLachlan, the initial batch was built by Messrs.

William Osborne Ltd. at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

IRB Launches

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...

Category: Services

New Life-Boats

Date: August 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 221

MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.

long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...

Category: Inaugurations

Rnli Annual Awards for 1973

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

EACH YEAR particular recognition is given to crew members taking part in conspicuous rescues, and in 1973 the RNLI annual awards were presented to lifeboatmen from Bridlington (Yorkshire), St Helier (Jersey) and Torbay...

Category: Awards

The Admiralty Drifter Lord Dunwich

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY 19TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a drifter had broken down south-east of Duncansby Head, and that the naval authorities were sending out a vessel to help her. A light...

Anjonika

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Broken steering ON SATURDAY April 28, at 0700, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station that a fishing vessel, Anjonika, was disabled 13 miles to the south east. She had been on passage, in ballast, from...