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Edwin Distin

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Edwin Distin The death occurred in October of ex- Coxswain Edwin Distin, aged 82, the last surviving member of the crew of the Salcombe, Devon, lifeboat disaster of 1916. He held the RNLI's silver and bronze medals. His son, Coxswain...

Category: Obituaries

Shoreline Club No 13 at Rochford

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

Shoreline club no. 13, at Rochford, gives tremendous, regular help to the local branch. The club's 1984 annual pram race, in which 14 teams called at eight pubs to drink half a pint at each, raised £200 for Rochford branch. The race... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gareen Junior

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1954, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched on exercise, with the second coxswain in charge, to stand by yachts off Penarth, which were taking...

Rnli news

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

NEWS POINT HURRICANE HEROES For those who lived through it, the hurricane which hit the south and south east coasts of England during the early hours of October 16 last will forever be imprinted on their memories.

None more...

Category: Articles

Ladies' Life-Boat Guild

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

IT was announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat that the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, had issued an invitation to each Guild to nominate two of its members, the President or Chairman and the...

Category: Articles

The New Fowey Motor Life-Boat. A 45 Feet 6 Inches Watson Cabin Type

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

The New Fowey Motor Life-Boat A 45 Feet 6 Inches Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Dinghy

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...

Surfboards

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Surfers saved in lightning rescue dashAs senior helmsman Aubrey Diggle was leaving the boathouse on the morning of 23 February 2002, a surfer reported that two of his colleagues were being swept away. Looking out to sea, Aubrey instantly...

Frederick Warne

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

THE BOOK OF SEA RESCUE Laurence F Gilding An authoritative account of all the organisations formed to help those in danger of drowning, with exciting ac- counts of some famous rescues. 10s 6d OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS Frank E Dodman A...

Category: Advertisement

A Yacht (1)

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Two sailors were rescued from their capsized boat in May this year thanks to the eagle eyes of an 11-year-old boy from South Queensferry. Scott Findlater spotted an object floating in the water from his bedroom window and raised the alarm....