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Carita (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...

Rnli News

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...

Category: Articles

A Boat (1)

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Barrow, Lancashire.—2nd October, 1938. A boat was in difficulties, but she got to the shore before help could reach her.—Rewards, £17 2s. 6d..

A Steamer (12)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 7TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A steamer had gone ashore, but declined help as she hoped to refloat unaided as the tide rose. - Rewards, £26 9s. 6d..

Rescue Call

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...

Category: Articles

Northlands

Date: November 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 246

NEWLYN AND SENNEN COVE, CORN- WALL.—Shortly before midnighton 28th- 29th February information was received through the Coastguard that a steamer had been observed about one and a half miles S.E. of Tol Pedn showing signals of distress. A...

Coxswain Ron Cannon

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Coxswain Ron Cannon Received ihe Silver Medal tor his "...enormous .'OUMi!o. determination and seamanship...' during a service to .1 disabled yacht in I uro: ~ si-iles .ind rough sets See Ihe Spring 2IMM hsue for ihe full... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Home Base

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...

Category: Articles

Boy Andrew

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...

Letters

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Double crossed It is worth remembering that not every plan for raising funds through sponsorship, however well laid, ends in success.

The following is a letter sent to Andrew Young, regional organiser, south west, by two...

Category: Correspondence