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Opposite and Above: 30,000 People Enjoy Visiting the RNLI at Hoylake Each Year

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

Opposite And Above: 30,000 People Enjoy Visiting The RNLI At Hoylake Each Year. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...

Ocean Bride, Elsie May and Doris

Date: August 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 253

.—Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 16th March the N.N.E. wind became very squally, and increased to a gale, when three of the Bridlington Quay fishing-boats, which had gone off early in the morning, were off Hornsea. At about 11 A.M. the wind...

Ocea

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...

Close call

Date: 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 595 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2011

Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel

On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...

Category: Articles

Royal favour

Date: Summer 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 600 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2012

Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...

Category: Articles

Above: the Battered and Broken Siskin Is Towed Into Harbour

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Above: The Battered And Broken Siskin Is Towed Into Harbour. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Meda

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

At about 9.30 P.M. on the 8th May, during an easterly gale and very heavy sea, Thomas W. Rowntree, Coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat, Horatio Brand, observed a schooner approaching the harbour, and shortly afterwards she made a...

Precarious position

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

New Brighton’s B class lifeboat Charles Dibdin and hovercraft Hurley Spirit were called out on Friday 25 March when a yacht crewed by experienced local sailors got stuck in mud. The yacht was leaning...

Category: Articles

Britannic

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

At about 2 P.M. on the 31st October the Coxswain and some of the crew of the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, when fishing near Chapel, observed a barge flying signals of distress.

The men promptly landed and tele- phoned for a...