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Coxswain at the Wheel

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

Staff Coxswain Sydney Hills at the wheel of the new 44-foot steel life-boat after completion of her trials in December. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Size of Fab 3 Has Allowed Space for a Special Survivors' Cabin Below Decks Additional Seating Is Also Provided at the Aft End of the Wheelhouse

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

The size of FAB 3 has allowed space for a special survivors' cabin below decks, additional seating is also provided at the aft end of the wheelhouse.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Winchman Ernie Bennett Activates the Winch Which With a V-Shaped Bridle of Special Flexible Wire Hauls the Lifeboat Clear of the Water

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Diana

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

On the 26th De- cember, 1860, the brigantine -Owit^ of Fredeficfcshamn, from Bordeaux, laden wtft wteat and brandy, struck on a reef of fockd in Ardmore Bay, the wind blowing & gale from S.E. The Ardmore life-boat was soon manned by a...

The Liner Calypso (5)

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...

Giving Instead of Receiving

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..

Category: Donations

The S.S. Brightside

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Falmouth, Cornwall.—The motor lifeboat B.A.S.P. was launched at 4.35 A.M. on the 24th December, as a steamer had been heard blowing continuously on her whistle. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The lifeboat found the s.s....

150th Anniversary of Newhaven Station

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, Secretary of the Institution, presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to the Newhaven branch on the 21st of September, 1955. This certificate commemorated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the...

Category: Awards

The Pyrene Company Ltd

Date: March 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 427

Pyrene protects ships and boats of all classes the world's greatest range of fire safety equipment PYRENE COMPANY LIMITED 9 6ROSVENOR 6ARDENS • LONDON • S.W.1.

Category: Advertisement

T. L. Devlin, of Granton

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

DECEMBER 19TH. ~ ABERDEEN. At 1.54 in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the steam trawler T. L.

Devlin, of Granton, had sprung a leak and needed help. A southerly gale was blowing, with heavy...