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A United States Ship

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

On the 20th of August, 1952, the Ramsgate life-boat went to the help of a United States ship which had been in a collision with a Norwegian tanker.

The American ship broke in two, but the life-boat managed to save her...

Overheard on a Bus

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.

A member of the Institution's staff was recently...

Category: Articles

Tom Lawrence and the Rnli

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Tom Lawrence and the RNLI both struck gold in a charity treasure hunt organised by Gillingham Marina at the London boat show this year. Tom guessed the right spot for the hidden hoard and received a handmade pewter statuette and a bottle of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Drink and Be Generous!

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Drink and be... generous! Each year customers of 'The Olde Coffee House' and the 'Star and Garter' public houses in London's Soho have organised 'Drunk-Aid', a gentle stroll around 20 pubs in the area in the space... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (56)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...

Cheers!

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

For the more discerning palate on your Christmas list, look out for special packs of 10-year-old Talisker single malt with the Lifeboats logo.

These extra-special packs of award-winning Scotch whisky are now on sale in...

Category: Articles

Greetings from cyberspace!

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

For all those birthdays and other special events in your 2011 diary, why not send an RNLI ecard?

Available in a range of designs to suit every occasion, our ecards are fun, funky and environmentally friendly. They cost...

Category: Articles

Two Sand Barges

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

NOVEMBER 21ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 11.20 in the morning a message was received that two sand barges, of Courtmacsherry, were drifting across the harbour bar and out to sea. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was...

Weather Charts and Storm Warnings

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...

Category: Charts

Two Wrecks In the Shetlands. Stromness Motor Life-Boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles

Date: June 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 302

DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.

They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...

Category: Articles