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A Sea Balliol Aircraft

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 174

FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...

Category: Articles

Welcome

Date: Winter 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 626 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2018/19

Happy new year! With fresh new (RNLI Shop) diaries in hand, we’re making plans for the year ahead. And 2019 is shaping up to be a busy one.

So what happens when an RNLI coxswain or a mechanic needs to plan some well-earned...

Category: Articles

Fundraising

Date: Autumn 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 566

Alan chips in Kind-hearted chip shop owner Alan Smith threw a lifeline to Kessock lifeboat in October when he donated an entire day's takings from his branch of Harry Ramsden's in Inverness. Alan hasn't forgotten that he owes...

Category: Articles

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Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...

Lifeboat Services

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...

Category: Services

Mr. William Robson

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew.

(From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.).

Category: Drawings

Annual Report

Date: May 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 88

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...

Category: Annual Reports

Beech Holm

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

AYR.—While the barque Beech Holm, of Sunderland, bound from Ayr for Cape Town with a cargo of coal, was being towed out of the harbour on the evening of the 28th March, the tow-rope slipped from her, and before it could be recovered she...

Ark

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TWO RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Llanina reef and that her crew of two were unable to...