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Dear Reader

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

How confident are you in the water? Perhaps you are practically a fish, slipping into the surf with ease – or do you prefer to cling to the support of terra firma?

If you’re not an experienced sea user, our feature on page...

Category: Articles

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed honor- ary life-governors of the Institution and pre- sented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...

Category: Awards

Richard Oakley, MBE, MRINA

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.

She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...

Category: Obituaries

Celine

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

On the 18th March theLife-boat Lcetitia saved the crew of the schooner Celine, which -was wrecked on the Holm Sand in a strong N.B. gale.

The master having refused to abandon his vessel, the Life-boat had to return to the...

Several Fishing Cobles

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

NEWBIGGIN.—On the 8th November, a very heavy gale from the N.E. sprang up at about 10 A.M., and several fishing cobles which had gone out at 4 o'clock, when it was quite calm, were in very great danger. At 1 P.M. the storm increased to...

Life-boatmen in the Empire Pageant

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

ON Empire Day, 24th May last, twenty Life-boatmen took part in the Empire Day Festival and Procession of the Empire organised by the Daily Express in Hyde Park. The procession was led by the massed bands of H.M. Brigade of Guards, and an...

Category: Articles

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Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—31st October, 1939. It had been reported that a raft with men on board could be seen off Wicklow Head. A strong gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. A rowing skiff put out from Wicklow as well as the motor life-boat...

Portrait on the Cover

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Harold Bradford of Exmouth.

Coxswain Bradford first joined the Exmouth crew in 1925. He was bowman from January 1939 to August 1943, when he became second coxswain.

Category: Articles

Falcon

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1956, a report was received that a fishing vessel had broken down off Crosskirk, near Brimness. At 10.50 the life-boat Dunnet Head, Civil Service No. 31 was launched in a...

Longscar

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam traw- ler Longscar, which was making for Hartlepool, had boiler trouble. At 2.30 the life-boat...