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The Destruction of the Scarborough Life-Boat

Date: January 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 43

IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...

Category: Articles

RNLI Family: The life of the charity

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

Celebrating the RNU family, past and present

Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...

Category: Articles

The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 168

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt t'l are — ; ft- .-,:r X. 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., 1...

Category: Articles

The Wife of the Life-Boat Man

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

THE Life-boat goes o'er the stormy sea, for a ship is in distress; The gun booms out on the water wild, and the brave men closer press; And John has gone with the other men away from our fireside warm, Out where the maddened breakers...

Category: Poetry

Nancy Moran, of London and Nuculana

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly after five in the morning information was received through the coastguard that the South Goodwin Lightship had reported a collision.

The sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog, and the...

Gifts from a Collector of Flags

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...

Category: Donations

From the Life-Boat of 1938

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Eianouth lifi-lxxit. Catherine Harriot Knlnn. and crew in 1938. Coxswain Tliomas Moore Horn, centre, ii'on the Ttianks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his courage and determination in carrying oiti a very difficult and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Ian Taylor (Left) General Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Ian Taylor (left). General Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Consumer Division, presents a cheque for £90,000 to The Duke of Atholl, the chairman of the RNLI, at a ceremony at the London Boat Show. The money represents... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Duke of Kent President the Duke of Atholl Chairman and Rear Admiral W J Graham

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

The Duke of Kent, president, the Duke of Atholl, chairman and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of the RNLI. Beyond them, the Lady Mayoress and Lord Mayor of Westminster and RNLI vice-chairman, Mr Michael Vernon.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Simon Peter

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

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