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A Night Rescue By Torbay

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

AT 9.20 on the night of the 30th of January, 1952, the Brixham coast- guard saw flashing signals outside Torbay about four miles north-east of Berry Head. They were unread- able, but they seemed to come from a vessel which was making no...

Category: Services

International Boat Show

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

Eyemouth Scotland South Division Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing divers The rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and...

Category: Services

Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....

Category: Articles

Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.

ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...

Category: Services

Feature Old Friends...

Date: Spring 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 560

The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...

Category: Articles

The Testing of a New Life-Boat

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...

Category: Articles

Books

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

BooKs BOOKS From the history of lifeboats and lighthouses to pastimes for Winter evenings, Carol Waterkeyn reviews what’s new on the shelves this season Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This...

Category: Articles

Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1882

Date: May 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 124

THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN THE CHAIR.

1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:— (Vide next page for this list.)...

Category: Meetings

Charles (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...