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Letters

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...

Category: Correspondence

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

Date: October 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 62

THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...

Category: Meetings

Marshall

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

BOULMER.—A boat, containing four men, being observed off Boulmer during a strong W.N.W. wind and a high sea on the 4th March, the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham put off to her assistance at 7 A.M., and brought ashore the boat and the...

The Prime Minister Mr Edward Heath Meets Sergeant F C Elverson Aged 70 a Chelsea Pensioner at the RNLI Stand at the International Boat Show for the Secon

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

The Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, meets Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 70, a Chelsea Pensioner, at the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show. For the second year running Sgt.

Elverson worked indefatigably on the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Escape

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.

The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...

Dasher

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....

Teasel (2)

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

Thrills, Spills and Women Drivers

Date: Spring 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 560

Nearly 50 women drivers proved they were just as good as the boys when they competed in a off-road driving day in May that raised £4,000 for the lifeboats. The challenging event.

organised by RNLI North West office and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Sir Alec Rose Who Opened Southampton Boat Show In September Arrived With Lady Rose for the Opening Ceremony In Calshot Lifeboat the 40Ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

Sir Alec Rose, who opened Southampton Boat Show in September, arrived with Lady Rose for the opening ceremony in Calshot lifeboat, the 40ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde. The lifeboat was accompanied by the frigate... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

November

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER Launches 71. Lives rescued 91.

NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a...

Category: Services