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Lifeboat On Show For 100 Years

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

Lifeboat on show for 100 years Redcar’s Zetland museum, the home of the world’s oldest surviving lifeboat, celebrated its centenary on 1 May.

The Zetland lifeboat arrived at Redcar in 1802, predating the foundation of the...

Category: Articles

(Front to Back): Bangor Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Youth of Ulster,

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

(Front to back): Bangor Atlantic 21 lifeboat Youth of Ulster, Lame Trent class lifeboat Dr John McSparran and Donaghadee Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

A CLIFF SAVE AT 2.25 p.m. on 10th June, 1972, the coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat was advised by a member of the public that two men were trapped on the cliff face below Gallant Rock to the west of Clovelly. Gesturing hand...

Your Letters

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Any information? I am researching the disaster which overtook HM Submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939. At the time, it was the world's worst submarine loss in which 99 men perished.

If any readers have...

Category: Correspondence

Lifeboat Services

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...

Category: Services

Helicopter Takes Off Lightvessel's Crew

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

After the gale had abated a helicopter was able to take off the crew of the North Carr lightvessel. - View image in PDF

(see page 391). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lifeboat Classified

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

ADVERTISE on these pages and reach 120,000 R.N.L.I. members and their family and friends. The cost is £11 a column centimetre or £10 if four or more insertions are booked.

Contact: Karen Heath, Jackson-Rudd &...

Category: Advertisement

Obituaries

Date: Summer 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 521

With deep regret we record the following deaths: JUNE 1990 Mrs Dorothy Rowson, founder secretary of Wainfleet and District ladies guild from 1962 to 1970 when she held the office of treasurer/secretary until she was elected as president in...

Category: Obituaries

Star Wars and lifeboats

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

The producers of legendary movie franchise Star Wars have shown their support of lifesavers- not lightsabers- by making a sizeable donation to Co Kerry's Valentia Lifeboat Station.

While...

Category: Articles

Providence

Date: July 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 53

On the 30th October the foreign barque Providence, of Dantzic, ran ashore at West Port, in Machrihannish Bay, Cantyre. The Campbeltown life-boat was brought to the spot from Campbeltown, a distance of 6 miles. Eight of the wrecked crew had...