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Motor Life-Boat at Boulogne

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: February 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 247

THURSDAY, 12th September, 1912.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building,...

Category: Committee

Leonidas

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

THE INCIDENTS which led to the launching of Angle lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth oj Leeds, on Monday, December 6, 1976, built up over several days.

On Saturday, December 4, the Greek...

Lifeboat Services

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...

Category: Services

News from the Branches

Date: June 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 279

Annual Meetings.

BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...

Category: Branches

TAX CHANGES and the INSTITUTION's FUNDS

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

% One little publicised effect of the reversion, after six years, to a 7s. 9d. in the £ standard rate of income tax, proposed by the present Chancellor, is that upon the revenues of bodies such as the R.N.L.I.

On...

Category: Donations

Four New Life-Boats Named

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, named the new Berwick-upon-Tweed life-boat William and Mary Durham on the 25th of July, 1957. The ceremony took place at Spittal harbour.

Category: Inaugurations

Prospero

Date: August 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 109

RAMSGATE.—On the 26th January, at 7.45 A.M., during a moderate wind from the N., a barque was observed ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.

The harbour steam-tug Vulcan and Lifeboat Bradford were immediately...

Accounts of Services by Life-boats (6)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JULY

Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.

JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...

Category: Services

Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...

Category: Articles