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H.M.S. Cygnet

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...

Cover Picture

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

COVER PICTURE Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II has recently taken up station at Plymouth. She a 44' Waveney class 'fast afloat' lifeboat built to a design introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964. Her twin General Motors... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Boat (2)

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Dover, Kent - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a man was seen waving a white flag in a small boat about three quarters of a mile off the coast midway between Dover and Folkestone. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at 5.23. It...

Trailer Trainer:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Racing Dinghies (2)

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...

Finance In 1940: Expenditure.

Date: July 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 4A

Expenditure was lower in 1940 because, owing to essential war work in the shipbuilding yards, the building of life-boats had to be greatly curtailed, and only half as much was spent under this heading as in the previous year. In spite of...

Category: Articles

Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1883

Date: May 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 128

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING FOE 1883.

His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN the CHAIR.

1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :—1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the...

Category: Meetings

Spirit

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...

Category: Articles

Saturday Revisited

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Lake Nepigon

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A ship's life-boat full of people came ashore 'at 9 A.M. on the 1st September. The officer in charge of her reported that she was from the s.s. Lake Nepigon, of Montreal, which had stranded on Arklow Bank, and that...