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H.M. Destroyers G51 and H78

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.

A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...

A Steam Fishing Launch

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

CADGWITH, CORNWALL,—On the 1st September September a terrific gale of wind Mew from the S., and the sea was very heavy. The Joseph Armstrong Life-boat put off at 3 P.M., and conducted safely ashore one of the steam fishing-launches belonging...

Atlantic Storms

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...

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Open Fishing-Boats

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

BsrDLINGTOH, YOBKSUXBB. About 10 P.M. on the loth October a gale of wind from the S. sprang up, and there being at sea five open fishing-boats, belonging to the port, which in consequence of the heavy sea could not make the harbour without...

New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless

Date: May 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 290

By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...

Category: Articles

The Three Barges T.F.C., Glenmore and Lord Roberts

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Oh the 26th November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, six in number, of the three barges T.F.C., Gknmore and Lord Roberts.—-Rewards: Bronze second service clasp, vellums, and money awards amounting to...

Contents

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 523 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...

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The Belfast Annual Meeting

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

Front Row. left to right: Mr. Robinson (Honorary Secretary), the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the Duke of Montrpse, the Lord Mayor, the High Sheriff, Viscount Bangor.

Back Row : The District Organizing Secretary, the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

New Inventions

Date: July 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 17

WHILE this Institution is endeavouring to supply our coasts with ample means for saving life on occasions of accident at sea, and whilst our sister institution, " The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent...

Category: Articles

RNLI Lifeguards move into Wales

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

RNLI lifeguards have been saving lives on beaches in England since 2001. This year, they make their first move into another part of the UK, patrolling 12 beaches in Wales as part of the RNLI’s aim to double its beach coverage by...

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