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Swimming

Date: July 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 29

THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...

Category: Articles

Admiral Van Tromp

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...

Classified Advertisements

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

ACCOMMODATION BROADSTONE. Close to Poole with sailing and fishing in the famous harbour. Miles of safe, sandy beaches, dunes and cliffs. Golf 250 yards, ride, walk or just relax in small hotel with comfort, good food and friendly atmosphere....

Category: Advertisement

Life-Boat Exhibition at Watford

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

A LIFE-BOAT exhibition was held at Watford, Herts, from 2nd October to 9th October as the principal part of a life-boat week, organized by the new honorary secretary of the branch, Mr.

H. Mellon, M.R.T.S. The exhibition was...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.

For years I have lived alongside a famous...

Category: Correspondence

Big sick, little sick

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’

In 2007, John...

Category: Articles

Two Brave Deeds

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.

THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...

Category: Awards

Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)

Date: November 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 118

RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...

Category: Services

Review of Books

Date: July 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 33

' THE MATE AND HIS DUTIES.' By flw late Capt. JOSEPH J. KELLY. Third Edition.

TAYLOR, IMRAY, and SON, Minories, London; ROCKLIFF and SON, Liverpool.

Price 2s.

IN our 29th...

Category: Articles

Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...

Category: Services