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Salonique II

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.38 p.m. on 26th September, 1965, a motor cruiser was seen firing flares in the North Channel near Shingle Bank. At 4.48 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings with the second coxswain in...

Clan Maclver

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

SICK MAN At 1.30 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain received a telephone call from a doctor that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to bring a sick man off the motor vessel Clan Maclver. At 3.30 the life-boat was launched in a strong...

A Fishing Boat

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Redcar, Yorkshire - At about 8.50 a.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a small fishing boat in difficulties half a mile off Redcar. At 8.50 the IRB launched in a strong north westerly breeze...

On Exercise By Andrew Gould Assistant Public Relations Officer RNLI

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...

Category: Articles

Coxswain Michael Scales St.Peter Port

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Coxswain Michael Scales, St Peter Port On October 11, 1983, Coxswain Scales rescued seven people aboard the yacht Wild Rocket in a force 8 west-north-westerly gale. He succeeded in manoeuvring the Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold close... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Monbretia

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO DOCK Humber, Yorkshire. About 12.30 on the afternoon of the 12th May, 1962, the owners informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor fishing vessel Monbretia was off Spurn with a fouled propeller and that she...

Double Celebrations

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

Double celebrations On 19 October 1996 Red Bay lifeboat station had double reason to celebrate - the naming ceremony of their new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, Dorothy Mary coincided with the official opening of the station's new... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Martlet

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...

Where Is Everybody?

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

Where is everybody? This lonely collector was one of the many who collected in Chichester on Saturday 22 July. Even though the collector was suitably dressed in shorts for the very hot weather, most of the public appeared to be at the beach!... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Washington

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head. The weather was very foggy, with a fresh southerly...