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Annual General Meeting

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...

Category: Meetings

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 72

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main ' body. The latter is formed of a keelway i and of side or bilgeways attached to the j...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

MKDAUJS IS SHOVVKI) 'BRAVKRV AM) KXPKKTISK Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shore The coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both...

Category: Services

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...

Category: Articles

St. Jan Berchmans

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.53 on the night of the 24th of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel St.

Jan Berchmans, of Ostend, with a crew of ten, had broken down. The inlet...

A Small Pulling Boat

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 8.50, on the evening of the 29th of August, 1950, it was learned that a small pulling boat from Caol Ha Distillery had been carried south through the Sound of Islay and would be unable to return against the tide....

A Book on the Life-Boats In the War

Date: December 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 26

The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.

It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....

Category: Articles

Fireman Sam Deciphers the Name on a Winning

Date: Winter 1995

Volume: 53

Issue: 531

Fireman Sam deciphers the name on a winning ticket from the draw while Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, prepares the drum for another spin.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Sick Keeper Is Winched Off Fastnet Rock

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

A Sick Keeper Is Winched Off Fastnet Rock. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lines on a Gallant Rescue By a Shore-Boat

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

HALF a league, half a league, Half a league seaward, In a wild storm of death Sail'd the five heroes.

Onward, the Quay Brigade! Straight for the wreck they made: In a wild storm of Death Sail'd the five...

Category: Poetry