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Holidays Galore

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

Scotland's 1983 Holidays Galore prize draw, which grossed about £10,000 for the lifeboats by the sale of tickets by branches and guilds, took place on August 5.

First prize, a cruise to Faroes on the Smyril Line MF... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Carol Sandra and Northwind III

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

Above: An Injured Walker Is Stretchered Down

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Above: An injured walker is stretchered down a cliff by the Coastguard cliff rescue to the waiting lifeboat.

This is just an exercise, but in 2001 RNLI lifeboats launched 446 times to people who had fallen from cliffs or... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Special delivery

Date: 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 609 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2014

OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY

Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...

Category: Articles

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

Honorary Life-Governor Mrs. W. D. Gale has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help she has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the West Cowes ladies' life-boat...

Category: Awards

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Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

OCTOBER 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE, AND DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.

An R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed several miles inland. One of the crew was killed, but the other had baled out. He was carried to the coast and came down in...

None (2)

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...

An Aeroplane (3)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

'I DON'T WANT TO DIE’

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 618 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2016/17

Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...

Category: Articles

The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...