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A Parachute

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.

At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched....

A Solitary Voyager

Date: October 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 26

The schoooner Happy Return, which left Sunderland with coals, was sometime since towed into Dundee by the Hull steamer Queen, with only one hand (a lad named WILLIAM CHARLTON) on board. It seems that after leaving Sun- derland, the schooner...

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Her Majesty the Queen's Recognition of Gallant Conduct

Date: October 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 34

THE destruction by fire of H. M.'s troop-ship Birkenhead, in 1852, and of the hired transport Europa,* in 1854, will no doubt be remembered by many of our readers.

Both catastrophes were attended by lamentable loss of...

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The Open Motor Coble Lily

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...

Two Sisters

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...

WHAT’S ON

Date: Autumn 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 617 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2016

Details might have changed since going to print, so please check in advance to avoid disappointment. To find out what else is on near you, see RNLI.org/events.

FISH SUPPER AND QUIZ
North Kessock Village Hall,...

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The Shrimp Trawler Young Robert

Date: November 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 150

GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the...

Friends of the RNLI: The Lifeboat Fund

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

Civil servants around the UK are celebrating 150 years of fundraising for the RNLI. And they’re doing so in style, having funded their 53rd lifeboat: a brand new Shannon class due to be built for Wells, Norfolk, in 2021. The Lifeboat Fund is...

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Ebro

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...

Edward Arthur

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

RAMSGATE.—At 11.45 A.M., on the 12th May, during a moderate E. wind and thick weather, signal guns were fired by the light-ships. The Bradford Life-boat went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan and found the schooner Edward Arthur, of...