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Union-Castle Line

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

1900 - 2000 CENTENARY VOYAGE DECEMBER 1999 - FEBRUARY 2000 On December 3Lt 1999 we're Jure you IIbe making mer/y...

but a delect few will be nwking history What better time than the Millennium to be aboard the first...

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That's Life

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Many years ago there was the-launching of the Mumbles/hearse Before the boathouse and slipway were built, the RNLI owned two horses to haul the Mumbles boat on a carriage over the wide mud flats into the water. One day the local undertaker...

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Exeter

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Medical Insurance that does not premum ust L J rou/re oUtw: If you're sick of your medical insurance costs rising with age, Exeter can make you feel a lot better.

Unlike virtually any other insurer we never increase...

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Isa Simpson and Sunbeam

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JAN. 19TH -. GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At about 3.30 P.M. a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for...

Hazleside

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 24TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO.

CORK. A message had been received that a steamer was in distress, as a result of enemy action, about fifteen miles south of Fastnet Lighthouse. She was the steamer Hazleside, of...

The Motor Fishing Coble Shiela

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

As the local motor fishing coble Shiela was long overdue, and could not be seen, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 5.55 in the evening, as night was coming on, to look for her....

Sea Safety century

Date: Spring 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 587

Since their introduction in 2006, the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat sea safety officers (LSSOs) around the UK and RoI have been saving lives through prevention – giving demonstrations and performing SEA Checks (like the one pictured...

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Three cheers for Tamars!

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Three new Tamar class lifeboats went on service at RNLI stations this Autumn – at Kilmore Quay, Shoreham Harbour and Bembridge.

Kilmore Quay’s new lifeboat, Killarney, was the first Tamar to go on station in Ireland....

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Eugine Schnider

Date: August 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 217

BEMBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT, and SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE. — During a strong S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 12th March, a message was received stating that a large vessel was being driven rapidly ashore at Hayling Island and that unless assistance...

Constantia

Date: August 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 105

GREAT YARMOUTH.—At 11 A.M. on the 30th Jan., during a strong gale at N.W., vessel was observed to go ashore on the South Soroby Sands, in consequence of sudden shift of wind. The No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, was launched and proceeded to...