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April

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.

APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...

Category: Services

The S.S. Leelite

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

On the morning of the 28th of November the s.s. Leelite, of Aberdeen, left the harbour intending to go to sea, but as there was a very heavy sea on the bar, the Cox- swain of the Life-boat was on the look out, as he was apprehensive of the...

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: February 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 203

IN our Life-boat Saturday Fund article published in the February number last year, we ventured to prophesy that better results would be obtained by the Life- boat Saturday workers in 1901 than in the preceding year, and we are only too...

Category: Articles

A Dell Quay Dory

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.

In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION forwarded to this important station, in September last, a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage, in the place of the boat and carriage previously there, the old boat...

Category: Articles

Annual Meeting

Date: August 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 265

THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.

H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...

Category: Meetings

Books

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

• The Flamborough Life-boats: A History of the Flamborough Stations, by Ralph S. Fawcett (Fawcett, 74 Lime Grove, Draycott, Derby, price 25p plus 5p postage) tells the story of one of Yorkshire's famous stations. Before 1871 there had,...

Category: Articles

The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1893

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...

Category: Articles

RNLI News

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Out in the open around the country! Once again the RNLI will be opening its facilities to visitors this year, enabling them to gain a firsthand impression of how the Institution works and the quality of the boats and...

Category: Articles

Oscar,the St. Nicholas Light-ship, a Steamer, a Trawler

Date: February 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 293

The Christmas Gales.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.

THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...