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Date: 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 609 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2014

OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY

Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...

Category: Articles

Birds Eye Foods

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

The Captain takes his hat off totheRNLL.

Category: Advertisement

Geir

Date: August 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 229

The steamer Geir, of Bergen, whilst bound for Blyth in ballast, stranded on the Knavestone Rock, Fame Islands, on the night of the 18th February, during a northerly gale and heavy sea. Information reached the North Sunderland Life-boat...

Please Remember the Rnli

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

PLEASE REMEMBER THE RNLI Lifeboatmen don't put to sea for pleasure Half the time they're rescuing those who have.

Category: Advertisement

Lizzie

Date: August 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 121

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran...

Miss Julia Hodges of St.John's Wood Selling Mr and Mrs Anthony Barber a Flag on London Life-Boat Day on 21st March—Budget Day Mr Barber Is of Course Chanc

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

Miss Julia Hodges, of St John's Wood, selling Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Barber a flag on London Life-boat Day on 21st March—Budget Day. Mr. Barber is, of course, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

by courtesy of Associated... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Southern Sun

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 9.40 on the night of the 29th of June, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that a vessel had broken down and was drifting five miles north-east of Ailsa Craig. The life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched...

December

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

Launches 50 Lives rescued 23

DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was...

Category: Services

The Future Rnlb Shoreline Which Will Be Stationed at Blyth Is Launched Into the River Arunfor Her Righting Trial and (Right) Brought Alongside at William Osbornes

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

The future RNLB Shoreline, which will be stationed at Blyth, is launched into the River Arunfor her righting trial and (right) brought alongside at William Osbornes.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Ilb Arrives

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

The ILB arrives and gets a line around Mr Steward but then finds itself unable to pull away as water threatens to swamp the lifeboat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs