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The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...

Lottery

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

LOtteRY Lottery lifesavings When it comes to saving lives at sea, £200,000 is a great deal of money to raise. Luckily, improvements to the Lifeboat Lottery will save the RNLI approximately this much in administration – every year....

Category: Articles

The Fundraisers

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

Celebration challenge London's Lakeside shopping centre was the setting for a unique anniversary fundraising event in August.

The Yamaha/RNLI challenge saw Lakeside staff competing against their retail rivals in a...

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A Twelve-Feet Dinghy

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six...

RNLI In Action

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...

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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee

Date: February 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 99

THURSDAY, 7th October, 1875 : THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of thelnstitutim, in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those 'of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and...

Category: Committee

Lights and Lighthouses

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.

At a very remote period,...

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Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...

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A Life-Boat Rescue

Date: November 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 86

The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...

Category: Articles

Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action

Date: Summer 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 569

Silver service at Cleethorpes and Numberhe knew he was in grave danger. It would take the combined skills and courage of Cleethorpes and Number lifeboat crews to rescue Dollard in an exceptional service, winning four medals It is a rare...

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