LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1896
Jan. 9. — Voted 42. to four fishermen for putting off in a boat and saying four men whose boat bad been capsized while returning to tbeir vessel, the Baron Hill, of Liverpool, which was lying off Exmouth, in a strong W. gale on the 4th...
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Fund Raisers
A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...
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News and Views
New members for RNLI Committee of Management Four new members were appointed to serve on the RNLI's Committee of Management-the Institution's trustees and controlling body - at its meeting on 28 November 1996.
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...
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A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
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Nationwide Mobility
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News
Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
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The German Fisheries Cruiser Frithjof
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fisheries cruiser Frithjof had asked for the life-boat to land a British trawler- hand who was...
May
Launches 22. Lives rescued 17.
MAY 4TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Early in the morning , information was received from the coastguard that signals had been seen seven to eight miles N.N.W. of Kinnaird Head, and at...
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The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and eleventh annual meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Friday, 5th April.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided,...
Category: Meetings