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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...

Category: Articles

Tavy

Date: November 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 178

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The ketch Tavy, of Plymouth, entered the harbour at 7 P.M.

on the 14th February, but was unable to take a pilot owing to the rough weather, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S.E. and a very heavy sea...

Sandetti

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

BOAT ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 2.12 a.m. on i3th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was on fire four miles south of Thorney Island and that a helicopter had been sent. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was...

Kingsabbey Ploughed Into Southend Pier

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Lifeboathouse destroyed: a 645-tonnc coaster. Kingsabbey ploughed into Southend Pier on the evening of Monday June M . 1986. She came l« rest athwart the lifeboat slipway destroying piles supporting the front of the boalhouse. More... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cyrus

Date: February 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 87

A heavy southerly gale was experienced here on. the 27th September, and the brigantine Cyrus, while running for Rye Harbour, grounded outside the East Pier, and as the tide rose she filled, and the crew, fearing the mast would part, took to...

News

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

We have lift offHovercraft to join RIMLI's fleet The first RNU rescue hovercraft will be in operation as early as January 2003, located in Morecambe. The decision to go ahead was made by the RNLI Executive Committee after successful...

Category: Articles

Your shout

Date: Autumn 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 601 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2012

My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire,   on Tuesday 17 July.

We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...

Category: Articles

Flashback: (Above) Mrs E a Harris Chairman of Hawarden Branch and Mrs Reidford a Committee Member Taking Their Part In Flag Day In 1977 Just As They Have Do

Date: Spring 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 464

Flashback: (above) Mrs E. A. Harris, chairman of Hawarden branch, and Mrs Reidford, a committee member, taking their part in flag day in 1977, just as they have done ever since (below) 1937.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: November 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 222

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Patron— $is f&aet ffitariotw fHajtstg tfjt King.

jittstSerii— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE o» WALKS,...

Category: Advertisement

Books

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Reviews of what’s new on the shelves this season

The storm prophet
by Hector Macdonald
Review by Carol Waterkeyn

This extraordinary novel is set...

Category: Articles