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BooKS A lifeboating selection to inspire, thrill and ponder Asboville by Danny Rhodes Asboville may not sound like it has any relevance to the RnLi, however a lifeboat crew member plays a key part in this surprising...
Category: Articles
Imperial Prince
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
Karina
Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had capsized a mile off Polkerris and that four people were in the water. There was a moderate northerly breeze...
An Eerie Sensation With Canvas Screens Over All Her Wheelhouse Windows the Princess Hoyal
An eerie sensation. With canvas screens over all her wheelhouse windows The Princess Hoyal makes her way out to sea from Poole Harbour for blind pilotage exercises. Every aid to navigation is brought into use in the drill.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Electrical Communication With Light-Houses and Light-Vessels for Life-Saving Purposes
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
Category: Branches
Calling All Mancunians: Manchester Has a Long and Historic Connection With the Rnli
Calling all Mancunians: Manchester has a long and historic connection with the RNLI. The very first street collection was held in Manchester and Salford in October 1891, when £5,000 was collected, and over the years Manchester's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martell Continues to Help the Rnli By Not Only Supplying Free Brandy for the Survival Kit on Board Every Lifeboat But Also By Donating Us Gallon Bottles of Brandy for Branches to Raffle During the P
Martell continues to help the RNLI by not only supplying free brandy for the survival kit on board every lifeboat, but also by donating US gallon bottles of brandy for branches to raffle.
During the past few months such... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hemanos
On the 8th February, about 2 A.M., the ship Hemanos, of Lillesand, bound to Leith with a cargo of guano, was reported ashore about two miles to the northward of Cresswell and firing signals of distress.
The weather was...