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Notes and News

Date: February 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 283

1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.

It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...

Category: Articles

Annual Report

Date: April 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 52

AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...

Category: Annual Reports

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: August 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 141

SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...

Category: Articles

The Prince's Trust: An Adventure at Aboyne

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

AN ADVENTURE AT ABOYNE TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF The Prince's Trust It's up to you—we will give you the tools, if you will do the job THE PRINCE'S TRUST, established in 1976 at the wish of the Prince of Wales, has thrown down a...

Category: Articles

R.N.L.I.'s Management Review

Date: October 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 437

R.N.L.I.'s Management Review THE COMMITTEE of Management of the Institution decided last year to invite P.A. Management Consultants to make a detailed review and examination (THE LIFE-BOAT, January, 1971) of the organisation and...

Category: Committee

Lifeboat Services (From Page 165)

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

Lifeboat Services (from page 165) Shetland Islands, that she was aground on Bressay Island in heavy seas and needed help. The Coastguard were already on the telephone to the honorary secretary of Lerwick lifeboat, who asked that maroons be...

Category: Services

No Sea Room from Page 18

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...

Category: Articles

Hazardous Passage

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...

Category: Services

Ceremonies

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Relief - Atlantic 75 Rotaract I On a bright November Saturday afternoon nearly 80 Rotaractors with a sprinkling of Rotarians gathered at the Poole Depot Quay for the naming ceremony of a new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, B718.

It...

Category: Inaugurations

Feature: Lifeboating - An Education

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Many colleges have their own sports teams, but how many can claim to have their own lifeboat crew? At Atlantic College, a crew made up of teachers and students is on call, ready to swap the classrooms and quarters at St Donat's Castle...

Category: Articles