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A Yacht and a Motor Boat

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Noblesse

Date: Autumn 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 566

A narrow escape for Dutch couple at DunbarLifeboatmen and Coastguards hauled a crew of two to safety from a grounded yacht, seconds before falling rocks destroyed the vessel A state-of-the-art £100,000 yacht, Noblesse, was entering...

Holiday shock

Date: 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 609 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2014

When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger

Wicklow’s inshore and...

Category: Articles

The Fisherman's Aneroid Barometer

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has decided to supply Owners or Masters of Fishing Vessels with an Aneroid Baro- meter of a superior and reliable character, at a small cost, which must make this useful instrument a welcome addition to...

Category: Articles

On a Lee Shore

Date: September 1919

Volume: 23

Issue: 267

off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...

Category: Drawings

Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 160

PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1890.

[Legaciet under £100 are omitted after having been publuhed twice in the Annual .Reports,] Amount...

Category: Donations

Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...

Category: Meetings

Ceremonies

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...

Category: Inaugurations

Life-Belts and Swimming

Date: October 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 22

WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...

Category: Articles