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January (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

Category: Services

National Service for Seafarers St.Paul's Cathedral

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

EACH YEAR since 1905, except in wartime, the annual National Service for Seafarers has been held in St Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London, to celebrate the unity of calling of all those who use the sea. At the 1981 service, held on...

Category: Articles

Bose

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

Now sounds even better.

Award-winning sound. Presenting the NEWBose® ACOUSTIC WAVE® music system II.

When we introduced our original ACOUSTIC WAVE® music system, Sound & Vision said it...

Category: Advertisement

A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...

Category: Articles

News

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.

At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...

Teasel (1)

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

Past and Present

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...

Category: Articles

The Roumanian Life-Boat Service

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...

Category: Articles