LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

New members for RNLI Committee of Management Four new members were appointed to serve on the RNLI's Committee of Management-the Institution's trustees and controlling body - at its meeting on 28 November 1996.

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Nov. 19TH. - CLACTON -ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 3.30 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Clacton - On - Sea life-boat station that they had seen red Very lights to the southsouth- west, four miles from their look-out. At four o’clock...

IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...

Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...

SELSEY.—On the 27th February, at 7.30 P.M., flare-up lights were seen to the westward of Selsey Bill. The wind at the time was blowing a strong gale from the S.W. The Selsey Life-boat Four Sisters was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...

These days swimming lessons aren’t all about armbands or diving for bricks in your PJs. As the nights draw in, we asked swimming coach Ashley Jones to help us become confident open water swimmers by next summer

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THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on this its fortyfourth anniversary, beg to return their hearty thanks to all those who have kindly given them their moral and pecuniary support; and they desire also publicly to...

ROSSLARE HARBOUR, WEXFORD.—The schooner Yarra Yarra, of Skerries, bound from Newport to Wexford with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore near the Rosslare Lighthouse in a strong E.S.E. gale and very rough sea, on the night of the 7th March....