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Four New Life-Boats Named

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, named the new Berwick-upon-Tweed life-boat William and Mary Durham on the 25th of July, 1957. The ceremony took place at Spittal harbour.

Category: Inaugurations

First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...

Category: Services

Windswept swimmer

Date: Winter 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 602 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2012

31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...

Category: Articles

Cruiser and Crete Avon

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...

Lucy and a Speed Boat

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...

Royal Visit to Holy Island

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

H.M. THE QUEEN and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh visited Holy Island on the 29th of June, 1958. They landed at the life-boat slipway and were received at the life-boat house by the Duke of Northumberland, Treasurer of the Institution, and the...

Category: Articles

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Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that some boys had been cut off by the tide at Crow- link, and at 4.40 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched.

She...

Friendship, Black Beauty and English Rose

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Cromer, Norfolk. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, on the advice of the coxswain of the no. 1 life-boat, the no. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched on an ebbing tide to go to the help of the crab boats which were hauling...

South Wales District Conference

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

FOLLOWING on the Conferences of Hcnorary Secretaries already held at Ijlargate in the South-East of England, at Scarborough and Manchester in the North of England, and in London, a Conference of Honorary Secretaries and workers in South...

Category: Meetings

J. W. T.

Date: August 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 125

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK. — Signals of distress were observed at 7.45 P.M. on the 24th March from the schooner J. W. T., of Truro, bound from Euncorn to Newcastle with a cargo of rock salt. The St. Michael's Paddington Life-boat at once...