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Eureka

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.10 A.M. on the 3rd September, 1939, it was reported that a vessel was showing distress signals about one and a half miles south of Walton Pier. The weather was clear with a strong...

The Chemical Tanker Multitank Ascania (1)

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...

Our Life-Boat Men

Date: February 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 187

SEA-TITANS bold, with hearts that know not fear, Though wild waves billows rave, leap and clam'roua No care have they, nor thought of dangers near, When going forth, poor shipwrecked lives to save.

Through gulfs of...

Category: Poetry

An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.

She was then directed to a position where...

Miss Ethel Hopkins, B.A., Folkestone

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

By the death of Miss Ethel Hopkins, B.A., on 21st June last, the Institution has lost one of its most devoted and suc- cessful honorary workers. For nearly ten years she was the honorary sec- retary, first of the Women's Auxiliary of the...

Category: Obituaries

Fifty Years of Life-Boat Design

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.

I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...

Category: Articles

Your Guide

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Handbook 2010 is now out and available for £6.

Essential for all who want to know the numbers, names and locations of RNLI lifeboats, launching tractors and more, it can be ordered from Tony...

Category: Articles

Membership News

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o r m F o r c e Positive Reactions There's an old saying: 'It only takes one spark to start a fire.' Well, the spark in this case was the Spring issue'spiece 'Moving with the...

Category: Articles

Hartlepool By Joan Davies

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...

Category: Articles

Sanchia

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...