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The R.A.S.C. Vessel M.O.B.7

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

OCTOBER 12TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a vessel was continually blowing her siren one mile east of Maughold Head and at 2.22 confirmed that she was in distress. A moderate east-north-east...

Busman's Holiday

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Paul Benney proved that lifeguards too are never off duty.

In March, he saved a tourist – while on holiday in Welhengoda, Sri Lanka! Paul explains: ‘I know Ahangama Beach very well and noticed a man swimming close to the...

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John Bull, of Yarmouth

Date: October 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 38

On the 17th February, the smack John Bull, of Yarmouth, parted from her anchors, and went ashore on the beach at that place.

The smaller Yarmouth life-boat was soon launched, and proceeded to her through a heavy surf....

North Esk of Sunderland

Date: January 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 35

On the 2nd November, at daylight, the brig North Esk, of SUnderland, was seen ashore on the north tail of Bideford Bar, the wind blowing a hurricane from W.N.W. at the time. A crew was quickly despatched from Apple- dore to man the life-boat...

The S.S. Fulham II

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

FEBRUARY 19TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat station received a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that a vessel had been mined east of the North Pier, and the motor life-boat John Pyemont was launched...

Point Girl

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JULY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. At 1.20 P.M. a man reported to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton, which was out with anglers, was flying a distress signal about two miles S.W...

Grace Darling

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

For all that a century and a quarter has passed since Grace Darling and her father attained fame, over the years their story has attracted the interest of a succession of authors. Save for two early works, which were almost blatantly fiction...

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Functional Clothing

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

Rtlph Lee. Technical Editor Camping A Caravanning' . the finest outdoor garments * I have ever seen . . . not iust good matetial and well made It is the amount of thought that has gone into the design that delights me . . . I give this *...

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Surfacing alone

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

Without their powerless support boat, two divers found themselves alone in the North Sea ...

The crew of the Humber lifeboat had just returned from a training exercise when they received the...

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The Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...

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