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Spreety (1)

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...

Inshore Rescue Boat Centre-Cowes

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

THE R.N.L.I. has had a long association with firms at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the construction of life-boats. The earliest life-boats were built by S. E. Saunders and later Messrs. J. Samuel White. Today life-boat construction is...

Category: Articles

A Boat (1)

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...

Cover Picture

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Hats off for the medallists! Pictured on hoard Galway Ba lifeboat Roy and Barbara Harding before this year's annual presentation of awards are those who received medals from HRH the Duchess of Kent. Left to right: John Pavill, Stephen... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: May 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 224

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION.

Incorporated by Royal Charter. Supported Solely by Voluntary Contributions.

patron—His Most Gracious Majesty the fling.

President—H.R.H. THE...

Category: Advertisement

Go wild, stay safe

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Thinking of doing more sea swimming?
Here are some RNLI safety tips:

  • Cold-water shock can occur within seconds of sudden immersion in cold water, causing a gasping reaction and an increase in blood...

Category: Articles

Marie May

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).

At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...

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Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surfThe Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two...

Life-Boat Christmas Cards and Calendars

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...

Category: Advertisement

Sea Gull

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a rowing boat was in difficulties three miles east of Moelfre Island. Ten minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched...