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Recent Services: The Lizard and Stromness

Date: March 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 278

LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...

Category: Services

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Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

NOV. 25TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

Two heavy explosions at sea had been reported. The life-boat went first to the East Newcombe Buoy but found nothing.

She then went north to Corton Light-vessel which told...

'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for 

RNLI Peterhead...

Category: Articles

Hans Thiis

Date: February 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 175

RAMSGATE,—A message was received telephone from the Goodwin Light-vessel on the morning of the 24th July, stating that a vessel was ashore on the North Goodwin Sands. At 10 o'clock the Lifeboat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug John...

Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: November 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 210

FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Boberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...

Category: Services

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

THE Thirty-first Annual Meeting of this national charity, incorporated by Act of Parliament, and supported by voluntary contributions, to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 25th May last at Burdett Hall, Lime...

Category: Meetings

Princess Margaret Being Welcomed at the R.N.L.I, Stand at the International Boat Show By the Then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (Centr

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

Princess Margaret being welcomed at the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show by the then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (centre) is the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860

Date: October 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 42

FOE the past nine years we have periodically called public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the Seas of the United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament.

It is...

Category: Articles

The Sea, Thine Enemy

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.

This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...

Category: Articles

Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 236

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-01.) A Friend, per Pembroke Cox, Mrs. E. E., the late, 116. Hopwood, S. W., Esq., the Eestell, W. T.,...

Category: Donations