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The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...

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

Date: October 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 62

NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the 31st December, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Duugeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.

The Dungeness life-boat, the...

Category: Services

The Annual Meeting

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 14th of March, 1956, with Lord Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...

Category: Meetings

Life-Boats for the Coast of Scotland

Date: July 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 33

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which has already numerous Lifeboat Stations on the English and Irish Coasts, is desirous to extend its work of usefulness to the Coasts of Scotland, that every part of the United Kingdom may be...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Epidauro

Date: August 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 249

During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.

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The S.S. Dryad

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

ANSTRUTHER.—On the 9th November, the Admiral Fitzroy Life-boat rescued the crew, consisting of 4 men, from the s.s.

Dryad, of Glasgow. The vessel was on a voyage from Montrose to Campbeltown, with barley, and when near the...

Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...

Category: Articles

The Floods of 1953

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

The Essex County Council has arranged for the extraordinary happenings at the end of January and the beginning of February, 1953, when large parts of the east coast were flooded, to be recorded in a splendidly produced and well illustrated...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...

Category: Articles

A Cheque for £100000 the Biggest He Had Ever Had Received for the Rnli Was Handed to Commander Swann By Mr Roy Bailhache Chairman of the Jersey Branch: It

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

A cheque for £.100,000, the biggest he had ever had received for the RNLI, was handed to Commander Swann by Mr Roy Bailhache, chairman of the Jersey branch: it will pay for Jersey's new 44' Waveney lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

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