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Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

GOUROCK, RENFREWSHIRE. Just before midnight on the 4th of September, 1942, the naval tug Romsey, with a crew of 20, dragged her anchor off Gourock pier, and the outwardbound steamer Lairdsburn ran her down.

She sank in a...

Category: Services

A Record Year

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

THE life-boat service broke two records in 1938. Its life-boats were launched to the rescue more often, and they saved or helped to save from destruction more boats and vessels, than ever before in its history of 115 years.

Category: Articles

International Life-Boat Conference

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

THE eighth International Life-boat Conference took place in Bremen from the 23rd to the 25th of June, 1959. The hosts were the German life-boat society, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger.

Delegates from...

Category: Meetings

Naming Ceremony at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

THE motor life-boat which the Insti- tution has built for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to take the place of the motor life-boat destroyed by fire while being overhauled at Cowes in June of last year, was named at the building yard of Messrs....

Category: Inaugurations

Sir Alec Rose

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Sir Alec Rose serving his guests at a cheese and wine party which he and Lady Rose held at their home in Havant during the summer in aid of the RNLI. A total of £470 was raised.

Paying tribute to all supporters of the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Great Little Railway

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

For the past 16 years the Tal-y-Llyn Railway Company, one of the famous Great Little Railways of Wales, has allowed the Tywyn branch to run a special summer evening train - which is pictured here at Abergynolwyn station last... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

MORE LIFEGUARDED BEACHES THAN EVER

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

If you’re heading to the seaside in the UK or Channel Islands this Summer, the chances are there’s a beach patrolled by RNLI lifeguards near you. This year our lifeguards will be on hand at more beaches than ever – they now patrol 238. ...

Category: Articles

Gyda

Date: May 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 120

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The brig Gyda, of Swendsale, Norway, stranded half a mile north of this place on the 18th January. In consequence of the snowdrift it was found impossible to take the Edward BirKbeck Life-boat to the scene of the wreck on...

None (13)

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

FIVE ADULTS AND TWO CHILDREN RESCUED Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 11.10 on the evening of Saturday the 14th of September, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch...

Martell Cognac

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

MARTELL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...

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