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Life-Boat Gifts for Christmas

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...

Category: Advertisement

Les William (Les Marine)

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Les William (Les Marine) - former Burry Port lifeboat station Helmsman and Lifeboat Operations Manager.

Category: Obituaries

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

Date: May 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 184

Obvarte.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, It mlnnte letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness." Reverie.—Three...

Category: Medals

Gifts In Gratitude for Services

Date: June 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 302

On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...

Category: Donations

(Below Right) Flattening Out to a Planing Surface Aft the Sponson Which Gives the Medina Her Stability Is Divided Into Watertight Compartments By Inner Baffles

Date: Winter 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 471

(Below, right) . . . flattening out to a planing surface aft. The sponson, which gives the Medina her stability, is divided into watertight compartments by inner baffles.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

May

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

St. Ives, Cornwall. On the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1958, anxiety was felt by local fisherman for the safety of the fishing boat May, of St. Ives, as she had not returned from the fishing grounds. The wind was freshening quickly to...

Don't Get Carried Away

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Mablethorpe Crew Member Claire MacDonald recommends: 'Please take care with inflatables - the majority of our shouts are for dinghies and rubber rings. Take notice of any warning signs and be aware that offshore winds can take... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Called away from Ceremony

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.

A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee

Date: August 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 89

THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...

Category: Committee

Viscount

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND Margate, Kent. At 5.31 on the morning of the 16th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Viscount of Groningen needed help. Her position was not established,...