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Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

IN the Queen's first Birthday Honours Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the Committee of Management, was appointed a Knight of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his public services as "Chairman of the Isle...

Category: Awards

Old Life-Boats for Sale. Bought for Conversion

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

FORMER R.N.L.I. life-boats can be converted into reliable pleasure craft, as many amateur sailors have dis- covered. Demand is keen for life-boats which are no longer required for the Institution's service and a list is kept of...

Category: Advertisement

List of Launches

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Aberdeen ALB ON 1248: Nov 13 (Twice) Abersoch 1LB B-582: Jan 5 Aberystwyth ILB B-704: Dec 10. Feb 17 and Feb 21 Aith ALB ON 1232: Nov 1 ALB ONI 103: Dec 14 Aldehurgh ALB ONI 193: Nov 20 ILBD-520: Nov 20 Amble ALB ON 1176: Jan 29 and Feb 9...

Category: Services

The Improvisatore. Songs of Society. "Man the Life-Boat!"

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.

O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...

Category: Poetry

Schooner George Smeed, of Rochester

Date: August 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 101

LOWESTOFT.—On the 14th January the Life-boat Lastitia proceeded under sailto the assistance of the three-masted schooner George Smeed, of Rochester, which vessel, while on a voyage from Shields to Rochester, was observed to lose her foremast...

Penlee: the Loss of Solomon Browne and Her Crew December 19 1981

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...

Category: Articles

The Duke of Montrose

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of...

Category: Committee

Nancy of Teignmouth

Date: July 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 37

On the 9th April, this boat was again called into use. The brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, was observed to part her cables, and go ashore at the Horse Bank; the life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to the aid of her crew, which...

Swiftsure, of Fraserburgh

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.

Although the crew...

The Life-Boat Services of the World: Portugal

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

By VICE-ADMIRAL HYPACIO DE BRION, Inspector and Secretary of the Instituto de Soccorros y Naufragos.UNTIL 1892, Portugal, although a mari-j time country, situated on the western l extreme of the European Continent, and:, on the route for all...

Category: Articles