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Rescue from Dutch Vessel on Fire

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.

E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.

This stated that the...

Category: Services

Life-Boat Services of the World: Iceland

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

WE are very glad to record the founding of another Life-boat Service. It is in Iceland, is a voluntary Service like'our own, and makes the number of National Life-boat Services seventeen, of which number four are maintained by the State,...

Category: Articles

Crew Thrown Out of IRB

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Two brothers, Christopher and John Cook, who formed the crew of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat, and a 64 year old retired doctor, Dr.

Harrison Broadbent, have received letters of appreciation signed by the...

Category: Services

Taking the wheel

Date: Spring 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 587

‘Being able to do something for someone – giving them that extra chance – you just feel pleased that you’ve done it,’ says Jennie Court, before our interview is brought to a sudden halt. We’re interrupted by the shrill ringing of a bell from...

Category: Articles

A Pleasure Boat

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 24th July, during a strong W. gale and heavy sea, a pleasure boat with four men in her was observed to be drifting seaward. The Life-boat Clara Baker proceeded to the boat, and brought her safely ashore...

Swallow

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 12.26 a.m. on i2th July, 1967, a red flare was reported near Barton-on-Sea. At 1.43 the life-boat. The Earl and Countess Howe, slipped her moorings. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found a small fishing boat...

Are you a lucky boater?

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

Bishop Skinner Marine, is offering one lucky boat owner the opportunity to win £500 off their boat insurance policy for a year. To be in with a chance of winning, call Bishop Skinner on 0800 783 8057 or visit bishopskinner.com for a...

Category: Articles

Classified Advertisements

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

Classified Advertisements Wordage: £8 per single column centimetre (minimum charge £24. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £17.50 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...

Category: Advertisement

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Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...

Favourite

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Hastings, Sussex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a signal.

She appeared to have broken down two miles south-east of the...