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Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...

Category: Articles

RNLI Family: The life of the charity

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

Celebrating the RNU family, past and present

Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...

Category: Articles

Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat

Date: August 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 109

IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...

Category: Services

Nil Desperadum

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

Medals of the National Shipwreck Institution

Date: January 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 11

WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...

Category: Medals

The S.S Hawkwood (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...

Right - the Great Gale: the Rescue of the Crew of the Venscapen Off Aldeburgh.

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Right - The great gale: the rescue of the crew of the Venscapen off Aldeburgh.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Notes of the Quarter

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane (1)

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...