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A Coaster

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Hastings, Sussex - At 6.22 p.m. on 1 8th June, 1967, it was reported that coaster had engine trouble about four miles south of Hastings. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.51 in light south easterly wind and a smooth sea.

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Rodent

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...

Surf Boards

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat during a night service in severe...

Ben Tart of Dungeness

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.

Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...

Category: Obituaries

Three Men Not In a Boat:

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Three men not in a boat: should the twin-engined lift 6in C class inflatable lifeboat ever have the misfortune to capsize, this is the correct way to right her. The demonstration, given by RNLI staff at Cowes base, shows how the special... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gallilean

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Fishermen rescued AT 0840 ON MONDAY, September 14, 1987 Captain K R Holmes, Fleetwood lifeboat station honorary secretary was informed by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that the 55ft fishing vessel Gallilean was taking water about five miles west...

Stromness

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 4TH. - ABERDEEN. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life-boat Robert and Ellen Robson was taken by...

7,000 Starting In 2000

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Remember New Year's Day 2000? Now imagine it without the hangover, a distinct spring in your step and an accepted first proposal of marriage - together with the prospect of spending the next two years walking around the country in aid of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hastings

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

HASTINGS, SUSSEX On the 31st March, 1943, the Hastings Life-boat rescued seven of the crew of H.M. Trawler Caulonia.

COXSWAIN JOHN E. MUGGRIDGE was awarded the bronze medal.

MOTOR MECHANIC WILLIAM R....

Category: Medals