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New Scottish, Irish and English Life-Boats

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.

The money to build the Longhope life-boat...

Category: Inaugurations

Inga

Date: July 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 65

On the 7th December, during a fearful gale of wind from W.S.W., the Edward Wasey life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crew of 12 men and a pilot from the Norwegian barque Inga, which was at anchor, in a dis- masted state, near...

Alpha

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of March, 1949, the Alpha, of Stranraer, a ketch with an auxiliary engine, was seen to be at anchor three miles south of the har- bour. It looked as if her engines had broken down. A...

Travelscope-1

Date: Spring 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 572

Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNLI Ocean Cruise Collection 2006 CRUISE DIRECT FROM TEN PORTS: London Tilbury, Falmouth, Liverpool, Mostyn, Swansea, Hull, Dundee, Greenock, Larne and Dublin BIGGEST EVER CHOICE! NO FLYING! British Isles...

Category: Advertisement

The Life-Boat and Its Work

Date: August 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 237

Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...

Category: Articles

John Nelson and Sea Gull

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

ORME'S HEAD.—On the afternoon of the 1st February the Life-boat Sunlight No. 1 was launched in response to signals of distress shown by vessels in the bay while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a rough sea. The boat took off...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: October 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 18

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A new life-boat has been recently stationed at Moelfre, a fishing village, on the north-eastern coast of the island of Anglesey, in lieu of the former lifeboat stationed there, which has been removed to replace a worn-out...

Category: Articles

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Trent class 14-02 Esme Anderson KwCrew Coxswain/Mechanic Ron Cannon Emergency Mechanic timothy Hurst Crew Member Lance Oram Medal Service Certificate Crew Members: Alan Bray Ian Cannon Christopher Andrews Raymond Noble James Barth Brett...

Category: Services

The Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

PRIDE OF PLACE The Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd. are proud to acknowledge the continued installation of their 'Penguin', 'Porbeagle' and 'Barracuda' marine diesel engines in ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION...

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