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War on the water

Date: Spring 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 611 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2015

On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world

The passenger...

Category: Articles

Helma II

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.40 early on the morning of the 26th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Durham that the yacht Helma II, which had a crew of two,...

Ocea (2)

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...

Ceremonies

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.

Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...

Category: Inaugurations

Rnli National Lottery

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

JOHN TERRETT, a regular presenter on the Bournemouth based Two Counties Radio, visited RNLI headquarters on January 31, 1985 to make the draw for the 28th national lottery. The lottery had raised over £52,000, a record figure and was...

Category: Articles

Book Reviews

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...

Category: Articles

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Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.

At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...

Ireland Community news

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019: Ireland Community News

Words: Anna Burn. Photos: DTH, Naomi Miller, RNLI/(Howth, Larne, Nigel Millard)

Welcome to your community news for Ireland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news

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Category: Articles

Incentive

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

MFV ashore RAMSEY COASTGUARD, Isle of Man, informed the honorary secretary of Port Erin lifeboat station at 0616 on Saturday, June 17 that the 70ft motor fishing vessel Incentive on passagefrom Whitehaven to Kilkeel with a crew of six aboard...

Feature: Getting to Know Her

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...

Category: Articles