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A Steamer (9)

Date: June 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 314

1st March.

A steamer ran on the rocks, but when the life-boat reached her she found that the master did not wish to leave.

Heavy seas struck the life-boat, flinging her against the steamer, and one of her...

Increase In Widows' Pensions

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

BY a fleet order dated 15th June, 1939, the Admiralty increased the pensions of the widows of naval ratings as from the 1st June. The Institution pays to the widows and other dependents of life-boatmen who lose their lives on service the...

Category: Articles

BLOOMS of Bressingham

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

Please send me Collection(s) Geraniums 9 £10.95 incl. del.

enclose my cheque/postal order (with address on back) made payable Blooms of Bressingham or please debit the sum of £ .

from my...

Category: Advertisement

Record of Rescues In 1966

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

1966 month January February March April . .

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August September October November December Number of times life-boats called out on service 1966 70...

Category: Services

Decca Radar

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.

That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe harbours.

When the call is for solid...

Category: Advertisement

Chianti

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

At 8 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, the yacht Chianti, with three people on board, was reported aground on the Newcombe sands. At 8.25 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick set out. It was low water, there was a light westerly breeze, and the sea...

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 140

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

The Rescue

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

I WAS hastening up from the beach, where the life-boat men had rendered good service that night.

****** The work was nobly done! JOHN FURBY, the coxswain, with a sturdy crew of volun- teers—twelve in all—were ready for...

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

South-Western District Conference

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...

Category: Meetings