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Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
Call the doctor!
The RNLI's responsibilities demand medical expertise not only in emergency care – lifeboat crew and lifeguards are often first on scene – but also for the health of our staff and volunteers...
Category: Articles
Homeward Bound
Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...
Category: Articles
Nostalgia Direct
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Category: Advertisement
The American Barque Harriet Frances
On the 2nd Sep- tember, at three p.m., a vessel was observed aground on the Arklow bank, 8 or "9 miles distant from Arklow. The life-boat of that place proceeded at once to her aid, when *he found a heavy sea breaking over and around...
Unsung Heroes: Frances Hudson
A volunteer describes her recent experience helping to preserve old photographs for future generations
What is your role?
I’ve been cleaning and digitising glass plates, part of a large collection of old lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Antje
At 5.30 A.M. on the 4th April information was received that a schooner was ashore on the Nore Sand. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 9 were at once assembled and they proceeded to the pierhead, but by the time they got there the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1880.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence...
Category: Committee
L'Espoir de L'Avenir
During a heavy S.W. gale on the 25th June the Coast- guard reported by telephone that a vessel was burning flares for assistance off East Lane Point. The No. 1 Life- boat Ann Fawcett proceeded to Shingle Street and found the schooner...
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler Newhaven N.B.
May, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.15 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1949, while the life-boat was carrying out a wireless test from the station with the Kilchoman coastguard, she heard a distress call from the Aberdeen steam trawler Newhaven N...