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Ex-Coxswain John Watters

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze...

Category: Obituaries

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

Fairey Marine Group

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

from Fairey marine WAVENEY Class 13.4 metre Self-righting Lifeboat, one of 117 lifeboats built by our East Cowes yard for the R.IM.L.I.

A boat of this Class, built for St. Helier, Jersey R.N.L.I. Station is featured in the...

Category: Advertisement

Mid-morning Mayday

Date: Autumn 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 605 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2013

15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...

Category: Articles

No Picnic

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...

Category: Articles

Small Ads

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

WEATHER MONITORING byR&DInstru-MeTLtd I K . leading Meteorological Instrument Manufacturer Beautifully styled instruments in solid hardwood cabinets with clear displays showing all parameters at a glance, shelf or wall mounting.

Category: Advertisement

Michalis Poutous

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...

Life-Boat Postage Stamps

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...

Category: Advertisement

The Fishing Smacks Useful and Mannin

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Douglas, Isle of Man.—During the afternoon of the llth March, 1939, a strong N.W. gale sprang up, with a heavy sea. Anxiety was felt for the local fishing smacks Useful and Manmn, which were at sea, and the motor lifeboat Manchester and...

After the Disaster

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

The Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay is towed away. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs