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The Record Breakers:

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

The record breakers: on Sunday, June 14, 1987, in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Eire, 329 sailing boats formed the shape of a sunflower beating the previous world record of 192 boats to moor alongside one another - a feat since ratified by the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.

This time it is a collision between...

Category: Articles

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...

Category: Donations

For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S Laura Fell

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

PEMBREY,CARMARTHENSHIRE.—At about 12.30 A.M. on the 14th October signals of distress were shown by the ss. Laura Fell, of London. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.W.. with thick rain and a very heavy sea. The signals were...

SSE support

Date: Winter 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 598 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2011

We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).

SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...

Category: Articles

Index to the Branches

Date: May 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 240

PAGE ABERDARE. . . 583 ABERDEEN , . .557 ABERDOVEY . . 585 ABERSOOH . . . 581 ABERYSTWITH 579, 580 ACCRINGTON . . 506 ACKERGILL . . 561 ALDEBURQB . . 534 ALLOA . . . . 561 ALNMOUTH. . . 527 ANGLE . . . . 685 ANGLESEY . . .679 ANSTRUTHEB . ....

Category: Branches

The S.S. Nebarn (1)

Date: August 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 221

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...

Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson, T.D., D.L., J.P.

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

Colonel the Hon. Harold B. Robson, a Vice-President of the Institution, died on 13th October, 1964, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management in 1933 and was elected a Vice-President in 1955. He served on the general purposes...

Category: Obituaries

The S.S. Copeland

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.45 P.M. the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands. The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3)...