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Annual Report. 1906

Date: May 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 220

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...

Category: Annual Reports

Hoppet

Date: November 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 150

ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...

Fac-Simile Reproduction of the Prince of Wales's Life-Boat Centenary Appeal

Date: June 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 281

St JAMES'S PALACE S.W There is not a country with a seaboard whose vessels and seafarers have not, at some time during the past century, been rescued from shipwreck by the British Life-Boat Service I would appeal to all, to...

Category: Advertisement

Miners and the Life-Boat Service

Date: November 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 271

ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...

Category: Articles

Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker

Date: February 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 275

I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...

Category: Donations

Spitfire

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...

Past and Present

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...

Category: Articles

Services of the Ramsgate Life-Boat

Date: January 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 51

THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...

Category: Services

Fishing Cobles

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

Thirty-one fishing-cobles belonging to this village were out on the 30th Sept., 1868, when the sea rose, causing them to run for Cullercoats; but, on approaching the bar, it was found they could not attempt to take it without great risk. The...

The Fundraisers

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...

Category: Articles