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The Port Erin Experiment

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

THE first life-boat to be fitted with diesel engines was completed in 1936, and since 1952 diesel engines have been installed in all new life-boats. Never- theless, there are still an appreciable number of life-boats in the fleet which have...

Category: Articles

Into the Dragon's Mouth

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...

76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...

Category: Services

Awards Presented By Countess Mountbatten

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

at the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May 1989 [ Bronze Medals for Gallantry Helmsman Alan Clarke, Hunstanton, Norfolk.

On 7 February 1988 the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Spirit of America took off an injured man from...

Category: Awards

Rnli News

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.

Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...

Category: Articles

Classified Advertisements

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Classified Advertisements Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre {minimum charge £16.50. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...

Category: Advertisement

Awards presented by HM King Constantine

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

BRONZE MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY Former Port St Mary crew member Rick Tomlinson, Lough Swilly On 16 April 1991 photographer Rick Tomlinson was taking publicity shots of the Lough Swilly D class lifeboat from his rigid inflatable when a fishing...

Category: Awards

A NEW LINE IN LIFESAVING

Date: Summer 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 612 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2015

When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …

In 2012, two men...

Category: Articles

Electric Logs

Date: February 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 127

IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

WHITBY. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has replaced the No. 1 Life- boat on this Station by a new boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, which was presented by Mrs. MABT ANN ELLIS, of York, and formerly of North Grrimston...

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Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...

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