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January

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY Launches 35 Lives rescued 39 JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was...

Category: Services

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

Category: Articles

Cllfford James

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

TWO EXCLUSIVE SPRING OFFERS-ONLY FROM j:iifford. lames Protection and Comfort«, in Town & Country j For Men and Women Probably the most ingenious raincoat ever designed.

IX you remcmlxT how practical and compact...

Category: Advertisement

Accounts of Services by Life-boats (3)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Launches 27. Lives Rescued 5.

APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward...

Category: Services

Harwell Apprentice Training School Raised £355

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

Harwell Apprentice Training School raised £355 for the lifeboats by winning the 24-hour pedal race at Bristol last February; the team finished first in afield of 24, beating its nearest rival by eight miles. Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South)... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coxswain Thomas Sinclair

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...

Category: Obituaries

No Simple Save

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …

Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...

Category: Articles

Poole Open Days July 22-24

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

LAST JULY, for the first time in its history and as one of its contributions to Maritime England Year, the Institution opened its head office and depot at Poole to the public. It was an entirely new departure which provided a unique...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Societies Abroad

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Confereri that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Socien The Institution...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...

Category: Articles