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Two New Vice-Presidents

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

LORD SEMPILL and the Marquess Camden have been elected vice-presidents of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

Lord Sempill has served on the Committee of Management of the Institution since 1927 and the Marquess...

Category: Committee

Penboch

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

On the evening of the 3rd of July, 1955, the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat rescued five men from the yacht Penboch, which had gone aground two miles from Southport pier. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Joseph...

Victoire Roger

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

DETAILS LATER Sennen Cove, Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched on 24th March, 1964, to help the Belgian trawler Victoire Roger. A full account of the service will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..

Chairman's Name

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Major K. G. Groves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, was inadvertently described as Major Graves in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT and apologies are expressed for this error. Major Groves was awarded the...

Category: Awards

Christmas Cards and Calendars

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on this page.

It is a photograph of the 42' Aldeburgh life-boat The Alfred and...

Category: Advertisement

An Aeroplane

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.

A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...

Ben Tart of Dungeness

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.

Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...

Category: Obituaries

Three Men Not In a Boat:

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Three men not in a boat: should the twin-engined lift 6in C class inflatable lifeboat ever have the misfortune to capsize, this is the correct way to right her. The demonstration, given by RNLI staff at Cowes base, shows how the special... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

7,000 Starting In 2000

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Remember New Year's Day 2000? Now imagine it without the hangover, a distinct spring in your step and an accepted first proposal of marriage - together with the prospect of spending the next two years walking around the country in aid of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs