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Punching waves

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril

Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...

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(Below) City of Bristol at Her Naming Ceremony Performed By the Lady Mayoress of Bristol Mrs a G Peglar Seen Above With Captain Roy Harding (Left) and Crew Member

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

(Below) City of Bristol at her naming ceremony, performed by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G. Peglar, seen above with Captain Roy Harding (left) and crew members.

Photograph by courtesy of Bristol Evening... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 51

SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...

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June

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.

JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...

Category: Services

An Aeroplane (38)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 3RD. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At 7.15 P.M. a three-engined enemy bomber was attacked by British fighter aeroplanes, north-east of Gourdon. In a few minutes the bomber crashed into the sea.

A light...

Life on the Open Road

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

When Spring approaches and inshore lifeboats prepare for their busy period, George Dadson, RNLI truck driver, knows there is far more going on behind the scenes than may meet the public eye…George is responsible for ensuring the inflatables...

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Hasselo

Date: May 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 120

Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...

The Life-Boat Service In Ireland

Date: September 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 295

SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...

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New Stations and Additional Life-Boats

Date: October 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 42

CAMPBELTOWN.—A new life-boat station has been established at Campbeltown, in Cantyre, on the West Coast of Scotland, and a 30 ft. 6-oared single-banked, selfrighting life-boat was forwarded there from London in June last. The cost of this...

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