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Yacht Auriga and Haliday

Date: February 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 305

AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d WEST HIGHLAND SHORES by Maldwin Drummond Published by Nautical Books at £19.95 ISBN 07136 5860 6 Maldwin Drummond is not only a Vice President on the RNLI's Committee of...

Category: Articles

Review

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

review by John francis, lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Honorary Secretary

I have had the privilege of evaluating the DVD version of this archive of 580 issues ofthe Lifeboat and found it very easy to use. There are...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1953 78,497 Notes of the Quarter THE terrible disaster at Arbroath, following...

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United States Life-Saving Service

Date: November 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 226

AT the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1906, the United States Life-Saving Establishment comprised 278 stations, an increase of one station as compared with the total of the preceding year. All the stations were comprised in thirteen...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.

When he was...

Category: Correspondence

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...

Category: Articles

Le Fleme (1)

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

St. Helier, Jersey, and St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—12th July, 1938. Anxiety was felt for the French yacht Le Flerne, which had been missing since leaving Cherbourg five days earlier, but no trace could be found of her.—Rewards: St. Helier,...

Lone Seeker

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

MEDAL FOR LYTHAM COXSWAIN On the 21st July. 1962, the Lytham- St.-Anne's life-boat towed the motor ketch Lone Seeker, which had four people aboard, from a dangerous position. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 346,...

Correction

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..

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