Payback time Sailor Graham Wills has always supported the RNLI but, as he tells Rory Stamp, a rather unpleasant experience led him to go a little further for the charity When the flashing blue light appeared through the darkness, Graham...
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By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
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Commander E. W. Middleton, V.R.D., R.N.V.R., Superintendent of the Depot since July, 1958, is retiring on 3151 December, 1964. He joined the Institution in 1946. He will be succeeded by Lieutenant E. D. Stogdon, R.N.V.R., inspector of...
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Two saved from taxi stranded on causeway West Mersea South East Division West Mersea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat carried out a somewhat unusual rescue on 26 January when she was called to a taxi stranded on the causeway to a nearby island.<...
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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A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
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SHORELINE HAS NOW COMPLETED one of the most exciting periods in its history, for late last summer the first lifeboat to be funded by Shoreline members made her delivery trip to her station, Blyth, on the north-east coast of England, and on...
Category: Inaugurations
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. — It will be remembered by our readers that in a former number of the Life-boat Journal (207), we mentioned that the boat on this station had been replaced by a new Life-boat of the " Norfolk and Suffolk" type...
Category: Inaugurations