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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

Twelve Days of Gales at Aberdeen. Award of the Silver Medal

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Award of the Silver Medal.

DURING the twelve days from the 21st January to the 1st February. 1937 the worst gales within living memory blew at Aberdeen, and the south break- water of the harbour was washed...

Category: Services

Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

To ALEXANDER W. DICKSON, on his retire- ment, after serving for 12J years as coxswain and 5J years as bowman of the St. Abbs life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.

To HENRY PETERS, on his...

Category: Awards

"Private benevolence, energy, and zeal."

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.

It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...

Category: Articles

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

A LETTER written to the firm of Messrs.

Ransomes and Sims, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, and signed by seven members of the staff " on behalf of the Clerks, Foremen and Workmen of this estab- lishment " was published...

Category: Articles

A Year of Exceptional Achievement for RNLI

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

— Annual Meeting Report APACKED Central Hall, Westminster, heard Captain the Hon. V. M.

Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, report on 20th April, 1966, that never had the life-boat service, in all...

Category: Meetings

Hidden Treasure Shops

Date: December 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 426

I HAVE been asked to write an article on 'shops' or 'hidden treasure shops' as we now call them and wonder just where and how to begin.

I think I'll go back to 1962 when we had our first shop. There were...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat International By Commander Peter D Sturdee Obe Rn

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

FIRST EVER LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PLYMOUTH: JULY 19 - AUGUST 17LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL is the slogan chosen for the International Lifeboat Exhibition which is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, from July 19 to August 17. It is...

Category: Articles

People and Places

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI King of the draw The names of the 20 lucky prize winners in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery were plucked from the drum on 31 January by Desmond Carrington, well-known actor and Radio 2 presenter.<...

Category: Articles

A Lifetime Of Lifesaving

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...

Category: Articles