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A Hundred Years Ago

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...

Category: Articles

Drill

Date: August 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 253

LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...

Category: Articles

Naming Ceremonies

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...

Category: Inaugurations

Swedish "Plaque of Merit"

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Presented to the Institution by the Swedish Life-boat Society. - View image in PDF

(See page 334).. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Birds Eye Foods

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

The Captain takes his hat off totheRNLL.

Category: Advertisement

Birds Eye Foods Ltd

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

The Captain takes his hat off totheRNLL.

Category: Advertisement

March

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Launches 33. Lives rescued 42.

MARCH 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after 5 p.m. the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Water Lily, which could be seen about three miles north of Margate pier, appeared to be in...

Category: Services

People & Places

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...

Category: Articles

Mike Mcelhatton of AFC Bournemouth

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Mike McElhatton of AFC Bournemouth prepares to draw the first prize ticket from the boot of the Volvo outside the RNLI's Poote HQ.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Baffles of Integral Water Ballast Tanks Hole of Transom Scoop Can Be Seen on Port Side (Right) Flexible Neoprene Pipes from Manifold (Inboard of Transom) Lead Port A

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

baffles of integral water ballast tanks. Hole of transom scoop can be seen on port side. (Right) Flexible neoprene pipes from manifold (inboard of transom) lead port and starboard to water ballast tanks and forward, on port side of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs