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Better than fiction

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp

With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...

Category: Articles

A Gala Performance. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales's Idea

Date: February 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 293

AT the suggestion of the Prince of Wales, the President of the Institution, the first presentation in England of the film " The Black Journey" was given in aid of the Life-boat Service, at a Gala performance, on 16th January last....

Category: Articles

Lives Lost, 1853

Date: October 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 14

The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.

Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...

Category: Articles

Our Nautical Aptitudes

Date: October 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 54

AT the dispersion of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, it had been predicted by Moses that Zebulon would dwell upon the coast, and suck of the abundance of the seas. Thus the tribe of Zebulon became a purely mercantile and...

Category: Articles

The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society

Date: October 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 74

IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...

Category: Obituaries

The S.S. Deventia

Date: February 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 297

At 2.10 on the morning of the 12th February, the Coxswain at Plymouth received information from the Coastguard that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the s.s. Deventia, of Workington, was in distress off Bolt Head, eighteen miles...

Brothers to the Rescue

Date: Spring 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 354

ON the morning of Easter Sunday a medical student and a nursing sister went out in a canoe from Bognor Regis.

When they were half a mile off shore they capsized. The wind, from the west, was strong, the sea rough, and the...

Category: Articles

Classifieds

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

TROPHIES RACE SETS — MAINSAILS — DINGHYS — CUPS.

W. & E. Astin, 7 Westerley Lane, Shelley, Huddersfield.

Kirkburton 2368.

FUND RAISING FUNDRAISERS! ! ! FREE-Colour Catalogue of...

Category: Advertisement

Life-Boat Cards and Calendars

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

This year life-boat supporters will have a choice of four Christmas cards and three prices. There will be a 5d. card illustrated by a bowl of traditional Christmas flowers and berries; a plain white card bearing the Institution's crest...

Category: Advertisement

Gifts In Kind

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, the RNLI receives from a number of companies free supplies of goods for use in lifeboats; gifts which are greatly appreciated both for their intrinsic value and for the underlying continuity of support which they exemplify...

Category: Donations