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An Exploit of Sir William Hillary

Date: September 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 303

The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gifts of Chocolate

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...

Category: Donations

From Two East Londons.

Date: December 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 6

On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..

Category: Articles

Men Behind the Medals

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

The Annual Presentation of Awards Ceremony in London provides a rare opportunity to gather together some of the year's medal winners and allow them to talk about their lifeboats, their services and their methods and views.Silver...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 68

THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Category: Articles

Tests of the Reliability of Life-Belts

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Rigorous tests have been carried out on the life-belts issued by the Institution to members of life-boat crews following some rather disturbing reports issued by the Danish Ministry of Commerce and Shipping on the effects of oil on kapok...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 192

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 204

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 212

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Regulations

Date: January 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 27

IMPORTANT alterations having been made in the Life-Boat Regulations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION since they were many years ago published in this Journal, we again insert them for the information of our...

Category: Articles