Books Never turn back: The RNLI since the Second World War By Ray and Susannah Kipling Published by Sutton ISBN 0750943076 Price: £19.99 hardback While the RNLI’s status as a lifesaving charity has remained firm, the Institution has...
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IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
Category: Obituaries
WE have to acknowledge the receipt from time to time of various communications from Mr. BALLINGALL, of Melbourne, New South Wales, on the subjects of unsafe ship-building, the causes of shipwrecks, &c.
Mr....
Category: Correspondence
THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...
Category: Meetings
SCOTLAND Broughty Ferry, Angus - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, a small yacht wasseen to capsize near the Craig buoy. At this time another three yachts were also capsized by a sudden squall. The yacht club rescue boat while attempting to...
Category: Services
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
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CLOse up Innovation stations Providing more than just a reassuring reminder of the RNLI’s presence, the charity’s 232 stations are as carefully designed as the lifeboats they house.
Elizabeth Paine finds out more When a...
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THE War, which caused such an inter- ruption in neatly every branch of national and international life, very soon led to a complete cessation of the exchange of journals and reports between this Institution and the Life-boat Services of our...
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THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
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