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August

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

Launches 39 Lives rescued 13

AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....

Category: Services

Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...

Category: Services

Newmarket Charity Race Day

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...

Category: Articles

Wreck Ashore

Date: October 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 38

Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....

Category: Articles

Classifieds

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

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Sandhill

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 28TH, 30TH and 31ST.- NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th, the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched to the help of the motor vessel Sandhill, of Newcastle- on-Tyne,...

Out in the cold

Date: Spring 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 619 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2017

When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’

Category: Articles

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

Cheques totalling £4,000 were presented to three charities at St. Martin's School, Walton, Surrey, in October. This sum was raised at the school fete in July—and was nearly double the amount raised at the late fete three years ago....

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

A NUMBER of important developments took pJace during the late summer of 1963 in the process, which is a con- tinuous and unending one, of moderniz- ing and improving the life-boat fleet.

A decision was taken to install...

Category: Articles

Travelscope

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

U tv Lifeboats Ocean Cruise Collection Every booking Welcome on board... the MV Van Gogh benefits the RNLI Cruising directly from the UK - No flying Award-winning tour operator Travelscope is simply the name to trust for unbeatable Ocean...

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