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THAT SINKING FEELING

Date: Autumn 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 621 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2017

Sometimes you can do everything right and the sea will still find a way to catch you out. Two friends from Bristol found this out when they decided to hit the east Devon coast for the late May Bank Holiday

With...

Category: Articles

Annual Report. 1889

Date: May 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 152

At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 23rd day of March, 1889, The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P., in the Chair, the...

Category: Annual Reports

Orion

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Life-boat O.N. 44-001 Life-boat O.N. 44-001 - At 12.10 p.m.

on 26th March, 1966, while on passage from Dover to Littlehampton, the lifeboat O.N. 44-001 came upon the yacht Orion of Newhaven which was burning distress flares...

Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), 1970 – it took the RNLI just 36 hours to provide 20 boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted to Dhaka to help those caught up in the flood disaster

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

Category: Photographs

Above: the Boats Line Up Ready for the Helicopter Exercise

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Above: The boats line up ready for the helicopter exercise Picluie: Paul Glatiel. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life cycle

Date: Autumn 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 601 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2012

Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain

The ambitious idea was...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Brighton lifeboat station I read with interest the reference in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT to the fact that Brighton lifeboat station was marking its own 160th anniversary in 1984 as well as that of the...

Category: Correspondence

Vivetta and a Naval Cutter of H.M.S. Ganges

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.47 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, while racing was in progress, the coastguard transmitted a message re- ceived from the Cork lightvessel. A yacht two to three miles to the north- east, was in...

Annual Report

Date: April 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 60

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 13th of March, 1866, the Eight Hon. EARL PERCY, P.O., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was read by the...

Category: Annual Reports

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

12 MILE PASSAGE IN 30 KNOT WINDS Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat...

Category: Services