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In This Issue

Date: Spring 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 560

In this issue News Including the naming of Falmouth lifeboat by Her Majesty The Queen and her Golden Jubilee celebrations Letters Feature Moving inland The RNLI's first inland lifeboat station celebrated its first birthday in May - Sam...

Category: Contents

People and Places

Date: Autumn 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 554

Mechanics down tools to pick winners Lifeboatmen attending a five-day mechanical and engineering course in Poole took time out of their busy schedule to draw the winning tickets for the Autumn lifeboat lottery in...

Category: Articles

Lead Us

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 4th of February, 1952, a strong north-easterly gale was blow- ing and the sea was heavy. The Whitby fishing vessel Lead Us was at sea, and at noon she wirelessed asking if it were possible to...

Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc

Date: May 1853

Volume: 01

Issue: 08

THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP- WRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instru- mental in saving lives during the year 1852...

Category: Articles

From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.

Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...

Category: Articles

Karen, of Porthallow

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 8.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 12-foot open boat Karen of Porthallow was overdue. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 8.40 in a moderate north north westerly breeze...

Small Boat Big Record

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Small boat, big record A weekend in August saw an event with a difference - a 24-hour sponsored sail organised by the Conisbrough and Hemsworth model boat clubs to see how far a model boat could travel in the time.

A new... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Healthspan

Date: Spring 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 572

OVER 80 PRODUCTS TO CHOOSE FROM Good nutrition is the foundation for a long and health/ lifespan.

"From t/ie do/ we are bom, good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most Important ways...

Category: Advertisement

A Dinghy (3)

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.

On...

Blotto

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Blotto, of Felixstowe, was in dis- tress near Blacktail Spit buoy off Shoe- buryness. At noon the life-boat Greater London II...