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Heavy Weather Training In the USA By Lt Alan Tate Staff Officer Operations (Training)

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.

Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat the Best of Boats

Date: August 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 217

" A dirty night, lads, bear a hand, It's blowing dead upon the land.

A ship 's ashore—just off the bar; She's all but gone—lost every spar.

Be lively, lads, and launch the craft; Stand by,...

Category: Poetry

From the Director

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

Lt Cdr Brian Miles looks at the RNLI's plans for the future and at a busy and memorable 1993In any generation, improvements in the lifeboat service can always be achieved, and the recognition that tomorrow we should aim to be better than...

Category: Articles

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Witham and District branch, Essex, held its 1982 house to house collection in July. When the box of one of its supporters, Mr B. Tebbutt of Coggershall, was opened it was found to contain £75.30; that amount was made up on one £10...

Category: Articles

The Ladies of Kidderminster

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

The ladies of Kidderminster guild line up in front of some of the merchandise at their nearly new shop. They have every good reason to look pleased as this year they raised £3,032.27 by their sales.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Lifeboat Fleet

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

Name AJfi & LG Undge Albert Brown Alec and Christina Dykes Aleiander Coutanche Andy Pearce Ann and James Ritchie Ann Lewis Fraser Anna Livia Annie Blaker Austin Lidbury Babs and Agnes Robertson Baidaycard Crusader Bingo Lifeline Blue...

Category: Articles

The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 184

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...

Category: Articles

In the February Blizzards When East Anglia Roads Were Blocked By Huge Snowdrifts Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Khami Launched to Take Th

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

In the February blizzards when East Anglia roads were blocked by huge snowdrifts, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Khami launched to take three patients, one a girl of 14, up the River Yare to Norwich for urgent... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Late Captain G. W. Manby, F.R.S.

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

THIS benevolent and ingenious gentleman has been gathered to his fathers, full of years and honours, his decease having occurred on the 18th November last, at his residence Southdown, near Great Yarmouth.

His well-known...

Category: Obituaries

The S.S. Batoum

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

Aldeburgh and Southwold, Suffolk.— At about 8 A.M. on the 18th July, an explosion was observed on a large steamer abreast of Southwold, and it was reported that she had been tor- pedoed. As some of the crew were observed leaving the...