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Confide

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.

on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...

Dusty Miller

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.53 P.M.

on the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about two and a half miles E.S.E. of Skegness Pier. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with...

Fairey Marine Ltd

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

FROM FAIREY... THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.

All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.

All three have all...

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Brawn teams fund new London lifeboat

Date: 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 595 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2011

Formula One mastermind Ross Brawn has inspired teams from some of London’s leading companies to raise £360,000 in just 8 months, most of which will be used to fund a new E class lifeboat for the River Thames.

The...

Category: Articles

Various Vessels (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...

Health & Home Shopping,

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

100% Duck Feather Mattress Topper AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE SAVE UP TO £7O OFF MRRP —13 There's nothing like the luxury of a duck feather mattress topper., It's like sleeping on a cloud! Enjoy the best night's sleep cocooned...

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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 124

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

Is your risk of drowning greater than you think?

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?

Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...

Category: Articles

The German Life-Boat Service

Date: August 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 181

IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...

Category: Articles

Over 70 Miles to the Rescue

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occa- sion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occa- sion she...

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