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(Below) An Atlantic 21

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

(below) An Atlantic 21 lifeboat airborne in trials at the Shingle Bank off the Isle of Wight. The Atlantic 21 has enough speed, up to 30 knots, to run clear of unstable seas in shallow water or steer round breaking crests when going to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Policemen In IRB Rescue

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

FOR their part in the rescue of three people from a burning motor boat off Bournemouth, Police Sergeant Douglas H. Carter, aged 43, and Police Constable Arthur E. Farley, aged 46, have received the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum....

Category: Services

None (1)

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

Knocked head A FISHERMAN was sorting fish on Courtmacsherry Pier on the afternoon of Tuesday June 30, 1981, when he lost his footing and fell into the river, hitting his head on the sloping stone face on the way down and losing consciousness...

A Steamer (39)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..

Isis

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

OAIBTEB AND WIHTEBTON NORFOLK,— The Oaister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off on the 19th September and remained by the stranded steamer Jsis, of Newcastle, as the vessel had a large number of men on board who were discharging the cargo....

Masterpiece

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Coastguard on duty having observed a small boat about a mile N. of the station, with a signal of distress flying, on the morning of the 26th August, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat. He at once summoned the crew...

Awards to Coxswains and Crews

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...

Category: Awards

Golden Years

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Drifting on to lee shore WITH WINDS OF STORM FORCE 10 tO 11 and a very heavy sea starting to break over the harbour wall, Acting Coxswain Thomas Devenny had set watch at Troon lifeboat store on the morning of Thursday October 18, 1984. At...

Her Final Moorings

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

The old Falmoiith pulling and sailing life-boat in a Surrey lane.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Faithful

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. At midday on the 17th November, 1962. the North Sunderland coxswain, in the absence of the honorary secretary, told the coastguard that he felt anxious about the fishing vessel Faithful,...