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Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.25 on the night of the 12th of August, 1949, a request was received from the county officer of St. John's Ambulance for the use of the life-boat to fetch a sick woman from Herm. She was a Giiernsey...

Golf Competition

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.

In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...

Category: Articles

Obituary

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

The Institution deeply regrets the loss of the following former coxswains of life-boats in recent months in addition to others whose deaths have already been recorded in the Life-boat: Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain Coxswain...

Category: Obituaries

Coronation Honours

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

IN the Coronation Honours Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A.

secretary of the Institution, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and Captain Q. Craufurd, R.X., honorary secretary of the...

Category: Awards

And Farewell

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Moss Rose

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

ENGINE FAILURE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.34 a-m- on 2Oth March, 1965, the East Pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat, with an outboard motor, was in difficulties because of an engine failure and drifting seawards half a...

Practice Launches

Date: August 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 291

AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers held at Bristol on June 18th, of which a report appears on page 485, one of the speakers pointed out how much it would interest the workers of inland Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and he asked if...

Category: Articles

Hardy Marine

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

HARDY MARINE +44 (0)1692 408700 www.hardymarine.co.uk Buy one, train many Congratulations to all our friends at the RNLI on the delivery of ‘Robert S Ellsmoor’ – their second Hardy Commodore 42 training vessel.

The...

Category: Advertisement

Eight of Greathead's 'Originals' Went on Station In 1803

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

Eight of Greathead's 'Originals' went on station in 1803.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Valkyran

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 6.25 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had burnt a red flare half a mile south of the piers. At 6.54 on an ebbing tide the life-boat...