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A Good Example

Date: July 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 37

THE following interesting communication has been transmitted to the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and is a gratifying evidence of the social kindness of heart that is so frequently found among our British workmen: — " Orwell Works,...

Category: Correspondence

The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: May 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 220

FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KIXG EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...

Category: Medals

Letters

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.

Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...

Category: Correspondence

Armistice Day

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

AT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and at Whitby, Yorkshire, the Motor Lifeboats took part in the Armistice Day ceremonies on November llth last, and at Heck- mondwike, Yorkshire, the twenty-five members of the Lifeboat...

Category: Articles

Birgitz and Riki Pia

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...

Coastguard changes

Date: 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 595 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2011

At the time of going to print, the RNLI was awaiting the outcome of a UK Government consultation on the modernisation of the Coastguard service. Under Government proposals, the number of maritime rescue coordination centres (MRCCs) around...

Category: Articles

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Date: Spring 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 560

Kart Meyrick was fishing from the end of Porthcawl Pier on 2 February 2002 when a giant wave swept him off the pier and into the sea below. There had been a severe gale blowing for the past 24 hours and enormous waves were completely...

Quick on the Draws

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Mr Charles Hunter-Pease, sales and marketing director of Volvo Concessionaires helps the Mayor of Torbay, Councillor Mrs Eileen Salloway draw the winning ticket for the South West Region at the Regional Conference on 10 October... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Cutter from H.M.S. Marlborough

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.

On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...

Mourne Lass

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT MARYPORT OCTOBER 9TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. During the afternoon a strong southerly wind was blowing. Towards the end of the afternoon it veered to west-north-west, growing rapidly stronger, and just before dark it...