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New Life-Boats
BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; HORN- SEA, YORKSHIRE; MABLETHORPE, LIN- COLNSHIRE ; MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND ; THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; and RAMSGATE, KENT. — The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these Stations have recently been replaced...
Category: Inaugurations
Birthday Honours
Three serving coxswains and a retired coxswain of the R.N.L.I. were honoured with the B.E.M. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. They were Coxswain Edward C. Larbalestier, of St. Helier, Channel Islands, Coxswain Robert Lee, Douglas,...
Category: Awards
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 527 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: BARBARA...
Category: Contents
The R.N.L.I, In Pakistan
AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...
Category: Articles
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race which took them the length of Lake Lathing, around the derelict trawler Yellowtail and back to the starting point at the bridge. Teams... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 29th March, 1855. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Special delivery
‘THIS BRAVE OLD SEAMAN’
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed taken from The Seamen of the Downs by the Rev Thomas Treanor, c1890s.
‘… There is a Norse flavour...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1895
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.
LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...
Category: Annual Reports
In May 1969 the Daily Mirror Handed Over a Cheque for £10,192 to the RNLI In Tribute to the Eight Men Who Lost Their Lives When the Longhope Orkney Life-Boat Capsized
In May, 1969, the Daily Mirror handed over a cheque for £10,192 to the R.N.L.I, in tribute to the eight men who lost their lives when the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat capsized. Most of the money came from readers. Mr. Hugh Cudlipp (left)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...
Category: Articles