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Homeward Bound

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...

Category: Articles

Arthur Lowe

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.

Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...

Category: Obituaries

A Life-Boat Song

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

WE wish to draw the attention of all readers of The Life-boat to a song called " The Life-boatman," the words and music of which have been written by Mr. Louis Drakeford. This song is being published, under the auspices of the...

Category: Articles

Mozambique Mission

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...

Category: Articles

Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy

Date: October 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 437

SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...

Category: Services

Helsingoe, of Elsinore

Date: January 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 75

The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.

STEWARD, the...

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

Thursday, 8th October, 1931.

Special Meeting.

Sir GODFREY BABINO, Bt., in the Chair.

Sir GODFREY BARING, Bfc., Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented to Sir GEORGE-SHEE a Gold...

Category: Committee

August

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.

AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...

Category: Services

The Word "National" In Our Title

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

AT first sight it might seem quite unnecessary to explain the meaning of a word which is so descriptive and so obvious in its application to the work of the Institution as the word " National." The operations of the Life-boat...

Category: Articles

August

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.

AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...

Category: Services