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Ready for Anything

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

When it's 3.00am in the morning, blowing a gale and the crew are WM paged for a shout, they must launch. From the moment they go to F sea, everything possible has been'done to give them the best ecjuiprnent, the best training and the...

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Mrs. Bella Mattison of Cullercoats. The Last of a Memorable Band

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.

The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....

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Membership News

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Apologies! You may have been one of several members who experienced strange happenings which coincided with the delivery of your Autumn journal, and unreserved apologies are due to all...

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2000 Rescue Statistics

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.

This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...

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The Chinese Life-Boat Service

Date: August 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 169

IT would appear from a Yellow Book published in March last by order of the Inspector-General of Customs at Pekin that no Life-boats or life-saving stations are established along the coast of China excepting those in the district of Canton,...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 210

EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...

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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Kilmore lifeboat was capsized twice. One member of the crew, Finton Sinnott, lost his life.

This sad accident caused the first loss of life following the capsize of one of the RNLI's lifeboats since...

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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...

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The Lifeboat's 500th Issue By Norman Hicks

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

MILESTONE IN HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL' RNU magazine's 500th issueLONDON lay beneath a blanket of snow and the normal clatter of carriages pulling up outside 20 John Street, Adelphi (just off The Strand) was muffled by its glistening...

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A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...

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