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Skim

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...

Quite a Show

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

Quite a Show The Isle of Man Lions Club recently presented Peel Lifeboat station with a showcase for use outside the boathouse.

For operational reasons the RNLI gift shop is situated in a difficult position at the back of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Donaghadee Co Down and Portpatrick Wigtownshire

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

The distance between Donaghadee, Co Down and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, is approximately 22 miles and is one of the trickiest sea crossings in UK waters. On one Saturday in July 1985, after waiting a week for a favourable weather forecast,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Walking the Pier:

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Walking the pier: Lennie Denton walked up and down Southend Pier for 24 hours to raise money for a new winch to launch Southend lifeboat. He aimed to beat the world 24-hour walk record of 133 miles 21 yards but despite his cracking pace he... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Boats, bangles and bands: the occasion was the annual bazaar of the Hakin Point branch

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

Boats, bangles and bands: The occasion was the annual bazaar of the Hakin Point branch and once again crowds attended for boat trips, bargains and other attractions, one of which was the fishing boat race organised by the South West Wales... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Training Vessel Francis Drake

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.

The yacht's auxiliary engine...

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Date: Winter 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 575

First aid for a doctor Kinghorn in Fife's Atlantic 75 Elizabeth Ann was launched just after 5pm on 20 July 2005 to the help of a doctor who had lost her footing while rock climbing at Hawkcraig Point, Aberdour, and fallen 15m onto a...

Albion

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.

At 1.30 P.M. the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon. She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of the Central Pier, and seemed to...

Elsie

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JUNE 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.13 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a small boat, with two people on board, appeared to be in distress 2 miles S.W. by S. of the Torquay coastguard look-out hut. A W.N.W. breeze...

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Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon information was received from the principal light-keeper of the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse, that one of the keepers had cut an artery in his arm and ought to be brought ashore...