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Season's Greetings

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

As Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating everyone associated with the life-boat service on their splendid achievements during the past...

Category: Articles

Angela

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 9.17 on the morning of the 3rd of June, 1951, the Castletown coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was in difficulties off Langness. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat K.T.J.S., on temporary duty at the station,...

Life-Boat Saturday

Date: February 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 219

SUCH serious problems as the " Unem- ployed " and the stagnation and alleged decline of trade, added to the general unrest throughout Europe on account of the Russo-Japanese war, now happily at an end, one and all rendered the self...

Category: Articles

Bookshelf

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

some recent publications reviewed EDWARDIAN WORTHING Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town written and published by Rob Blann at £12.95 ISBN 09516277 1 6 Foreword by RaymondBaxter, RNLl vice president and member of the committee of management...

Category: Articles

A Rowing Boat

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Coverack, Cornwall. At 10.10 on the night of the 21st of July, 1959, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two people on board was unable to return to harbour because of the strong wind and ebb tide. At 10.45...

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Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

MATERNITY CASE Galway Bay. At 10 a.m. on loth June, £965, the doctor at Kilronan told the lifeboat authorities that he had a maternity patient who needed immediate hospital treatment and, as there was no other suitable boat available,...

A Spitfire Aeroplane (5)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...

£10 for a Penny

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

AN envelope with a penny stamp was in the Institution's post the other day.

Inside were ten £1 notes.

ThereTwas no letter or name with them. The postmark on the envelope was Bristol..

Category: Donations

Mervic

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...

Green Pastures

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Blyth, Northumberland.—At 12.1 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received from New- biggin that the Newbiggin life-boat was unable to launch and escort in a fishing coble. The...