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'Life-Boatmen Know Best'

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

The leading article in Yachting & Boating for 2Oth April, 1967, had this to say: 'We . . . hear complaints that some of the rescued do not wish to be rescued. But like the surgeon, the life-boatman diagnoses and then operates ....<...

Category: Articles

Letter. Let's Put Out More Flags

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

• I attended the London District Conference when the present financial problems of the R.N.L.I. were explained to the delegates. Subsequently the excerpt from the article - 'Why put out more flags ?' included in the last issue of THE...

Category: Correspondence

Keep on Trucking

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

The New Mercedes Truck. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Henrich

Date: February 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 239

NORTH DEAL and RAMSGATE, KENT.

—At 10.15 A.M. on the 29th August a barque was observed from Deal ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was promptly launched and proceeded to her assistance. She proved...

Lifeboat Lexicon

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Awards for Gallantry The RNLI has been making awards for gallantry since it was founded 175 years ago. In that time the system has evolved, both keeping pace with the...

Category: Articles

In Tenby Harbour

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

The Porthdinllaen and Barmouth life-boats on the sand alongside the quay. On the other side of the quay is the Tenby life-boathouse and slipway.

From photographs by Mr, A. R. Hughes, a member of the crew of the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lieut.-Commander Henrik De Booy

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...

Category: Obituaries

Two Sabre Aeroplanes

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two Sabre aeroplanes of the R.C.A.F.

had collided near the Wainfleet bomb- ing range and that a parachute had been...

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Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.

At 7.50 the life-boat George...

Tricia

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...