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Letters

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...

Category: Correspondence

Students rowers swamped

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

Crosshaven lifeboat, the B class Miss Betty, was out on exercise on 6 December when it happened upon an overcrowded dinghy at Lough Mahon.

It was the UCC Rowing Club safety boat, struggling in rough conditions with a...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

South West Division Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The...

Category: Services

The Spanish Life-Boat Society

Date: August 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 165

MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Ronja Borchard (1)

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.

•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...

People and Places

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...

Category: Articles

Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1893

Date: May 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 168

His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in THE CHAIR.

Moved by His Royal Highness The PRINCE OF WALES, KG.

Seconded by The Eight Hon.

A. J. MUNDELLA, M.P., Presi- dent of the...

Category: Meetings

Notes of the Quarter

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...

Category: Articles

A Gallant Coxswain

Date: February 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 243

THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...

Category: Articles