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An American Tug

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

OCTOBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. An American tug had been reported in distress, and an escort vessel had been sent out, but later it was reported that everything was normal and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £18 10s....

RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

Station to station
Lifeboat superfan Harry Mascall is celebrating an important milestone on his mission to visit every one of the RNLI’s 237 stations. The 8-year-old Storm Force member from Cheshire enjoyed When Connie Richards,...

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Wreck of the Life-Boat at The Mumbles

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

AT 6.10 in the evening of Wednesday, April 23rd, the life-boat at The Mumbles vent out in a gale of exceptional severity to the help of the steamer Samtampa, of Middlesbrough, which had been driven ashore on the rocks off Sker Point, eleven...

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Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

In 1965 the life-boat service had by far its busiest year since the Institution was founded in 1824. There were 1,038 launches by life-boats on service and 462 by inshore rescue boats. Life-boats saved the lives of 562 people and IRBs...

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A Yacht and an Aeroplane

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 11TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 8.15 A.M. the life-boat station was informed that an air battle was imminent. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes later it was reported that an armed yacht...

The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 132

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...

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List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats

Date: April 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 64

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Category: Donations

Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December. 102 Lives Rescued

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

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List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats

Date: April 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 52

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List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats

Date: April 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 60

 

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