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Date: Spring 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 611 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2015

When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...

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Shoreline

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

ONCE AGAIN another year has passed and 1982 has been the best year yet for Shoreline recruiting, due largely to the great support that we have had from our existing members. Our membership now stands at more than 92,000 and I am certain that...

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People and Places

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

Malcolm Grant, the winner of the Volvo 440 Li car which was first prize in the RNLI's 60th national lottery owes his thanks to comedian Billy Burden, who drew his winning ticket. The popular comedian, who was curently appearing as Mr...

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Services by Shore-Boats (9)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.

They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...

Category: Services

International Boat Show

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...

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Yachting & Boating Weekly

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

yachting t oating weekly IN EVERY ISSUE All the latest Hews which only a Newspaper can bring Best long-read features Superb Colour Pictures Boat 8 Equipment tests ..

Full Results & Club news EVERY WEDNESDAY 1/6d SAIL...

Category: Advertisement

Below: Dunbar

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

Below: Launching restrictions mean that Dunbar's Trent class has to launch from the power station up the road but the old red sandstone boathouse is still home to the station's D class and crew facilities.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Laertes (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FEBRUARY 3RD. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. The Dutch steamer Laertes, of Amsterdam, had struck a mine S.E. of the Royal Sovereign Lightship, and had caught fire, but she was able to reach a Dutch port under her own power. - Rewards :...

Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 160

BELONGING TO on IN CONNECTION WITH T STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed £ or Named. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. In. NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-OS-TWEED - - - 37 - 8 - 12 1888 HOLY...

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A Broadcast History of the Life-Boat Service

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.

in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...

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