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The Great Gale of 23rd November, 1938

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 142 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 20 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1939 - 66,142 The Great Gale of 23rd November,...

Category: Services

Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...

Category: Articles

A Bronze Medal Service at Boulmer

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.

Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...

Category: Services

Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.

The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Service In 1951

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

THERE were fewer launches of life- boats in 1951 than in 1950, and fewer lives were rescued, but it was a year of outstanding gallantry, and more than twice as many medals were won, two silver and eight bronze. They were won by coxswains,...

Category: Articles

The Record of 1925

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

Terrible Winter Storms.

THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...

Category: Annual Reports

The Fundraisers

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

It Moosed be a mistake! No-one in the RNLI's membership department had an inkling that Mr A. Moose of the Station Hotel, Hurworth Place near Darlington was anything other than a normal, valued member - and the landlord of the Station...

Category: Articles

Small Ads

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

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Category: Advertisement

Lifeboat Small Ads

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

ELIZABETH HOTEL 37 Eccleston Square, Victoria, London SW1V1PB. Tel: 071-828 6812 Ideal, central, quiet location overlooking magnificent gardens on fringe of Belgravia. Comfortable Single/ Double/Twin/Family Rooms.

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Category: Advertisement

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

THURSDAY, 11th January, 1894.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...

Category: Committee