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Big sick, little sick

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’

In 2007, John...

Category: Articles

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Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...

The S.S. San Francisco, of Havre

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 7th August the 6,000-ton s.s. San Francisco, of Havre, carrying a crew of thirty-eight, and bound laden from Newcastle to Havre, ran aground on Haisborough Sands, about two milesS.E. from Haisborough...

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Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

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Two French Life-Boat Disasters

Date: November 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 285

IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.

In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...

Category: Articles

January (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY MEETING STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES. At 10.30 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1943, the 30- feet motor fishing boat Girl Lena, with a crew of four, was fishing off Stornoway. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north-west...

Category: Services

Correspondence

Date: July 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 21

WE have to acknowledge the receipt from time to time of various communications from Mr. BALLINGALL, of Melbourne, New South Wales, on the subjects of unsafe ship-building, the causes of shipwrecks, &c.

Mr....

Category: Correspondence

News

Date: Summer 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 628 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2019

Your guide to everything RNLI
LIFEBOAT VOLUNTEER IS NEW LEADER

We are delighted to introduce Mark Dowie as the RNLI’s new chief executive. He succeeds Paul Boissier, who has retired after 10 years. As a...

Category: Articles

RAPID RESPONSE

Date: Spring 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 619 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2017

When two teenage boys found themselves drifting out to sea, they soon realised they were in real danger. Luckily for them, trainee Crew Member Sam Shelley was close by

A warm summer’s day was winding down in Skinningrove...

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Annual Meeting

Date: June 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 302

THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.

The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...

Category: Meetings