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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...

Category: Articles

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

Hauling-Off Warps to Life-Boats

Date: October 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 26

HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...

Category: Correspondence

Towing Life-Boats In Rough Weather

Date: January 1863

Volume: 05

Issue: 47

IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: February 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 195

There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...

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,...

Category: Articles

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...

Category: Advertisement

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