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Feature Buildling Reflections

Date: Winter 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 563

It is hard to believe that a year has passed since I concluded my editorial circumnavigation of the RNLI's operational realm. In one respect time has passed quickly, with plenty still going on around the coasts and new, exciting...

Category: Articles

People and Places

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.

One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...

Category: Articles

Pulaid Marine Systems

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

The instant guide to safety at sea.

Legislation or not in 1992, as every serious boat user knows, safety at sea is vital - and when the unexpected happens, there's often little time to consider the correct response.<...

Category: Advertisement

New Year Honours

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

AMONG those associated with the life-boat service upon whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours list were :— K.B.E. Vice-Admiral R. A. EWING, C.B., D.S.C., a member of the Committee of Management.

C.B.E. ...

Category: Awards

Ceremonies

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

Stromness On the afternoon of Thursday August 22, 1985, morning rain had given way to sunshine and the earlier buzz of conversation blending with music from the Salvation Army Band and the movement of people around Stromness harbour was...

Category: Inaugurations

Spider

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

RYE, SUSSEX. — The yacht Spider, of Ramsgate, brought up at 11.30 P.M. on the 2nd June, about a mile off Camber.

The wind was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., and the vessel was lying too near the shore, so that on the...

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has...

Category: Advertisement

Eileen

Date: November 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 254

The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.

At the time of...

Walls Whippy Ltd

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

RUNNING A SHOW THIS YEAR? HERE'S HOW TO MAKE IT MORE PROFITABLE By selling Sports days Fetes Open days Gymkhanas Scrambles Carnivals. Bazaars.

Barbecues. Pageants Regattas. Displays ice cream You collect and return...

Category: Advertisement

Correspondents

Date: July 1853

Volume: 01

Issue: 09

J. K. W. (Framore).—Many thanks for your communication. If our friends would do likewise the number of our subscribers would be greatly increased. Our object is not to make a profit by our publication, but to diffuse useful information...

Category: Correspondence