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Correction

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..

Category: Articles

A Young Son: Craig

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

. . . And a young son: Craig, the eldest son of Coxswain Fred Walkington of Bridlington, ready to take his place as one of the crew of the lifeboat float for the Bridlington Lions carnival last summer. The float won a cup and it also won... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Plymouth's Round House Before-

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Peter Squires,

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

July 1998 Peter Squires, chairman of Christchurch branch. He was founder member of the branch in 1975 and during the past 23 years has held most offices within it. He retired in May 1997 due to ill health but still remained a member and gave...

Category: Obituaries

A Belgian Steamer

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A Belgian steamer lying in the Downs was flying a signal for immediate medical aid, and the life-boat went out with two doctors, Before she arrived the steamer had gone on her way, and it was found that she had...

A Motor Boat (2)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

DECEMBER 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor boat had been seen drifting, but the life-boat was recalled, and the steamer which had first reported it said later that there was no sign of life on the drifting boat. - Rewards, £4 2s..

To the Help of Birds

Date: September 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 25

On May 3ist the Selsey life-boat travelled three miles in a choppy sea and heavy rain to the rescue of eight men seen drifting on a raft. The life-boat found that the raft was a R.A.F. target, and as she approached it the men flew away. They...

Category: Articles

Flip

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 10.15 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the motor launch Flip, with a crew of two, was overdue from a fishing trip believed to be in the vicinity of the Barrel rocks. The...

Virgin IV

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

AGROUND IN FOG Dunbar, East Lothian. At 2.54 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Virgin IV had run aground in fog on Long Craig rock, half a mile west of the harbour.

The life-boat Margaret...

Minna

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 11 a.m. on 2yth March, 1967, a message was received that the fishing cruiser Minna had asked for immediate medical assistance for a member of her crew who had fallen overboard off Kepoch Head. He had been...