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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 190

KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.

In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...

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The Bulk Carrier Fiona and Phillips Oklahoma

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...

People and Places

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Overseas greetings RNLI Deputy Director, Ray Kipling, recently received a letter and some photographs from Fernando Andrade, secretary of the Uruguayan lifeboat service ADES. The picture above shows the Montevideo station lifeboat ADES 14,...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Services of the World: Iceland

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...

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Gladys

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

At 12.15 P.M.

on the 4th August the smack Gladys, of Lowestoft, was observed on the Bar- ber Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat, Nancy Lucy was launched to assist her.

The wind was blowing strongly from the...

The Pyrene Company Ltd

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Just as ships in distress know they can depend on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in the emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, crews themselves know they can depend upon the sure and unfailing protection of the "Pyrene" Fire...

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Worthwhile Find

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).

For some time we lived in the building right... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Handy, of Wexford

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...

Shire Design Electronics Limited

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

A D V E R T I S M E N T A TRUE STORY ABOUT RELIEF FROM Some years ago, I suffered a slipped disk - a common enough problem but I made the mistake of not resting and letting nature take its course. The end result of this was that the...

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Kapok Life-Belts. Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade.

By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

THE Court of Inquiry held by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the Rye Harbour...

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