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Chip and Who?

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

No, not the real Chippendales! These are actually members of Peterhead lifeboat crew doing a good imitation while modelling at the recent fashion show organised by Peterhead ladies' guild. Thanks to Mackays Stores and all the willing... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

J.G. Graves of Sheffield

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

J.G. Graves of Sheffield was the first of the 26 Oakley Mk1 s to be built between 1958 and 1971 and is displayed on a typical launching carriage of the period. The class was designed to be self righting while retaining a high degree of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Annual Awards 1977

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.

On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...

Category: Awards

Functional Clothing

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Airflow JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world ideal for work or leisure 'Airflow' coat and jackets are wind and water proof outer clothing and our claim of...

Category: Advertisement

A Small Vessel

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1948, the Strumble Head coastguard telephoned that a small vessel appeared to be in distress six miles to the west- ward. Five minutes later he saw her flying...

40 Years of Service

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...

Category: Committee

H.M.S. Birdham

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 2.52 p.m. on 23rd June, 1967, a message was received that a naval vessel was on fire off the Cock of Arran. An amended position of the casualty was given as between Skipness Point and Lochranza. The life-boat City of Glasgow II slipped...

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: November 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 304

Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...

Category: Awards

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work

Date: May 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 232

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...

Category: Articles

Amelie

Date: February 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 179

HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W.

breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt,...