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Ephrussi

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...

Vip Launch:

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...

Category: Inaugurations

A Small Outboard-Powered Boat

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Two saved by brothers andjifeboat The quick thinking of two young men who were about to take a swim in the Teign estuary undoubtedly saved the life of at least one of two people who were thrown into the water when their small outboardpowered...

Thetis

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Survey ship Geotek Alpha ablaze off the west coast of Scotland last July. Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, can be seen with 15 of the casualty's crew aboard. Eventually the lifeboat had to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Regina

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— Shortly after 8 A.M. on the 4th October, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Kenfig Sands. She was the M.V. Regina, of Rotterdam. A strong W. gale was blowing, with squalls and a very heavy ground...

Naming Ceremonies In 1939

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Barmouth, Merionethshire.

The Institution stationed at Barmouth in 1939 a 32-feet surf motor life-boat, with Hotchkiss internal cone propellers. She is like the Poole motor life-boat described in the issue of The Life-boat...

Category: Inaugurations

Polar Prince

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 23rd August, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a trawler ashore just south of St.

Mary's Island. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing, with a slight...

Holiday offer

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Are you planning a self-catering holiday this year?

Cottages4you is offering RNLI supporters a 5% discount on stays in their holiday homes around the UK, RoI, France and Italy. What’s more, for every booking made by a...

Category: Articles