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Willy De Roos' Yacht Williwaw at Faraday Base Antarctica In 1983

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

Willy de Roos' yacht Williwawa Faraday Base, Antarctica in 1983. During her passage, she was tested to the limit, breaking through solid ice up to 18 inches thick, passing a Japanese boat that had been frozen in the previous season.... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

GULLY RESCUE FOR KAYAKER

Date: Summer 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 612 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2015

FETHARD | 22 MARCH
Fethard volunteers headed to a man who tried kayaking to the aid of his dog. The pet had fallen down a very steep gully while chasing a seagull. The kayaker found his vessel...

Category: Articles

Shoreline/Storm Force

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

What's in a name? Shoreline. We have all become so used to using the name that it is difficult to stand back to examine whether it really does its job of describing the RNLI's membership scheme. In a recent survey carried out by...

Category: Articles

Coxswain John Graham

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

Coxswain John Graham (Griff) Griffiths of Salcombe. Coxswain Griffiths joined the lifeboat crew in 1962 and was appointed coxswain in 1973, a position he held until 1984 when he retired.

Coxswain Griffiths was awarded the...

Category: Obituaries

RNLI lottery and Mini draw

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...

Category: Articles

A Dinghy

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

Dinghy in distress The volunteers at Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station in Somerset were out on exercise on 19 February 2006 when a call came to assist dinghy sailor Tanya Tucker. The boom clip to her mast had broken, causing repeated capsizing...

Dinas

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

Sick Russian A RUSSIAN TRAWLER which, having a sick man on board, might need help was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1630 on Friday, Sep-tember 3. Later, at 1900, a further message was...

Sparkling Wave

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.50 early on the morning of the 18th of December, 1958, the motor mechanic was informed by the owner of a local fishing boat that he had received a message that the trawler Sparkling Wave of Kilmore...

Kyle Rona

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Barra Island, Hebrides.—During the night of the 31st October, 1938, a whole south-westerly gale sprang up, and the steamer Kyle Rona, of Glasgow, which was at anchor in the bay, lost one of her anchors and was in danger of being driven on...

A Trimaran

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

DRIFTING TRIMARAN TOWED TO SAFETY Howth, Co. Dublin. At eight o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, the Baily lighthousekeeper told the honorary secretary that a trimaran had been seen drifting and apparently out...