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Rush hour

Date: Spring 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 599 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2012

One breezy Autumn evening at dusk, a passenger vessel travelling along the River Thames collided with Tower Pier in central London. Upriver at Chiswick, another incident unfolded

At 7pm on...

Category: Articles

Valhalla and a Yacht

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...

Safe Landings?

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...

Category: Articles

Yachtsmen and the Life-Boat Service

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

SINCE the end of the war in 1945 the number of calls for life-boat assistance emanating from yachtsmen—a term used as conveniently indicating people who go to sea for pleasure rather than profit—has steadily increased. Life-boat calls to...

Category: Articles

Ken Black

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Ken Black rounds the Needles on his way to breaking the record time for circumnavigating the Isle of Wight on a sailboard. The challenge is laid down by Carlsberg who, because Ken was to donate his prize money to the RNLI, doubled the amount... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Meteor Aeroplane

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.

At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...

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Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—14th June, 1939, An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Barton-on-Sea, but nothing was found, nor was any aeroplane reported missing.—Rewards, £3 18s..

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Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 2 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea, but it was reported later that it was a false alarm. - Rewards, £18 12s..

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Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

MARCH 11TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. A drifting object had been reported, and was found to be a paravane. A floating mine was also seen and reported. - Rewards, £16 8s. 9d..

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

Honorary Life-Cover nor.

Mr. CHARLES J. SHARP, J.P., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution and has been presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duke of Kent,...

Category: Awards