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A Canoe

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

SOLDIERS RESCUED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.23 a.m.

on i9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two soldiers were missing from a canoe east of St. Govans Head and at 2.38 the Tenby life-boat...

Lifeboat Lottery

Date: Summer 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 569

Your chance to win The star prize for the winter 2004 Lifeboat Lottery is a 12-day St Petersburg and Baltic capitals cruise for two aboard the MVVan Gogh. The prize is kindly sponsored byTravelscope and tickets are available from 18 October...

Category: Articles

Electrical Communication on the Coast

Date: August 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 177

DURING the last three years good progress has been made with the all-important system of electrical communication on the coast for life-saving purposes, pro- moted by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. The majority of the most...

Category: Articles

The Appeal of the Press

Date: May 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 273

THE urgent appeal which the Prince of Wales made in his Presidential Address for increased financial support of the Life-boat Service was taken up at once in the Press, and a number of papers supported and reiterated the appeal in their...

Category: Articles

Hospital for Aged and Disabled Master Mariners and Seamen

Date: January 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 27

MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.

INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...

Category: Articles

The King of Norway and a Life-Boat Crew

Date: November 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 258

IT will be within the recollection of our readers, that in May 1913 we had the pleasure of announcing that His Majesty the King of Norway had graciously given a monetary reward to be divided among the crew of the Skegness Lifeboat, for their...

Category: Awards

Pinta

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...

From the Princess Elizabeth

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.

At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.

The Lord Provost...

Category: Donations

An Aircraft

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Dungeness, Kent. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that wreckage of an aircraft had been seen four miles south of Varne lightvessel. At 12.50 the life- boat Charles...

Fiver II

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...