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First Severn on Station

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

The first of the RNLI's new 25-knot Severn class lifeboats has entered service at Harwich in Essex.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dawn Anne and a Dinghy

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...

Community News: South/Midlands/East

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018: South/Midlands/East

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GRENFELL FAMILIES VISIT STATION

The RNLI has been working alongside charity Cornwall Hugs Grenfell to help survivors, firefighters and those who’ve lost loved ones to create new memories and...

Category: Articles

Keep Your Kit On

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Earlier this year GMTV set up a nationwide search for the 'sexiest man in uniform'. Thousands of applications were received and the panel of judges had the tough task of whittling down the entrants to a final 12. One of the 12 was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

RNLI In Action

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...

Category: Articles

Ceremonies

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...

Category: Inaugurations

Island Excellence

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

The RNLI's fleet of inshore lifeboats do sterling service 365 days a year - but who is responsible for the creation of such trusted workhorses? The volunteers so rightly renowned for their skill and bravery in saving lives at sea rely...

Category: Articles

ALL SHOOK UP

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 618 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2016/17

Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather

It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...

Category: Articles

Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea

Date: August 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 145

The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...

Category: Articles

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Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Trapped_men rescued from pier supports Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...

When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that a person was trapped on a narrow ledge under Eastbourne Pier it was...