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This Picture of a Life-Boatman and the R.N.L.I., Flag, Against a Sea Background, Is a Collage

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

This picture of a life-boatman and the R.N.LI, flag, against a sea background, is a collage made up of 17 different kinds of English postage stamps, and is the work of Capt. Colin Lowry, former honorary secretary and now chairman of the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden

Date: February 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 283

By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...

Category: Articles

The Merchant Vessel Craigantlet

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...

Letters

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

It is a comfort to know . . .

On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...

Category: Correspondence

Manx Steamer Ben Veg Meeting a Force 8 Gale As She Left Harbour In January 1966 at Times During This Winter's Gales Seas Were Breaking Over Road and Jetties

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

. . . and Manx steamer Ben Veg meeting a force 8 gale as she left harbour in January 1966. At times during this winter's gales, seas were breaking over road and jetties right up to the head of the inner... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Gift of Gold

Date: June 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 24

The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...

Category: Articles

The Annual Meetings 2000

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...

Category: Meetings

Sark

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 11.47 in the morning, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a quarter miles off Nevin Point.

Thirteen minutes later the life-boat...

An Anson Aeroplane (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...

Behind the Bleep

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

It’s time to run – the pager’s gone off, calling the dedicated volunteer fromtheir work or bed. Mairéad Dwane discovers the technology behind the drama

RNLI crew members, shore helpers, launching authorities, medical...

Category: Articles