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A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...

BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.

wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...

Lofty lifesavers Sometimes, lifeboats need a little help from above. The Lifeboat meets the air crew who play their part in sea rescues – and who are lifesavers in their own right It’s a chilly Sunday morning on the windy, exposed airfield...

Home from the sea: a welcome through the airport window for Ha/lur Helgason, third engineer of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss, from his wife and his little son Halli.

Hallur Helgason was one of the crew of 11 rescued by... - View image in PDF

FISHING BOAT TOWED IN FOG Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.20 on the evening of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that men working on the sea defences near the Buckle Inn had heard cries for help coming from...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 8th April the Coastguard reported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails,...

Lifeboat is especially for loyal, regular givers and members like you. But there is also a new online magazine for everyone interested in the RNLI – with content you can’t get in a quarterly print publication, such as videos and recent...

[These verses on an unsuccessful life-boat launch, with their most dramatic ending, were written after a visit to the Kirkcudbright life-boat station by a company of five poets. Their names are recorded in the first stanza and their ages...