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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vii—Building Up

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

THE VAST OPEN SPACES of the hull interior gradually disappear as work continues at William Osborne's yard on the internal structure of the 37' 6" Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.

In the...

Category: Articles

Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: February 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 159

AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...

Category: Meetings

Young John

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

WEXFORD.—In the afternoon of the 10th February, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing lugger Young John, of St. Ives, which had left Wexford on her homeward journey two...

Life-Boat Stamp Club

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....

Category: Donations

Exeter Friendly Society

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

"At last we've found affordable Private Medical Insurance for the over 50's.

Exeter Friendly Society Exeter Friendly Society offers healthcare insurance for the over 50's that is hard to...

Category: Advertisement

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Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.

During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a party of bathers off Nayland Rock had got into difficulties. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As it was dead low water...

Opportune

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.4 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat near Proudfoot was flashing signals and had burnt red flares. At 6.30 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched....

Afon Gwili

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.40 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Brake Sands and asked that the life-boat should be launched immediately.

A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....

Imperial Interest:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Imperial interest: His Imperial Highness Prince Naruhito, grandson of the Emperor of Japan, paid a private visit in July to Moelfre lifeboat station on Anglesey. After meeting station and guild officials, the Prince was taken to sea in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hada II

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.5. on the morning of the 30th Nov- ember, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Hada II of Rotterdam was ashore on Sailers bank but in no immediate danger. Forty...