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Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services A variety of services from around the country The Annual Meetings '99 The Chairman reports on a very successful year and the nationwide launch of SEA Check, plus...

Category: Contents

Polly

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Nov. 7TH. - WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

At 8.30 P.M. signals of distress were seen from a fishing skiff about two miles north-east of Wicklow Pier. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.45 P.M. the motor...

Purr Purr

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.

on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...

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Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

Training saves lives The benefits of the RNLI's training programme were demonstrated in August last year when crew members of Fenit lifeboat saved the life of a man using their newly gained resuscitation and cardiac massage skills. The...

Falkenstein and Portslade

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Dungeness, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed thata vessel was firing red flares a mile and a half west-south-west of Dungeness.

The crew assembled, but as...

Lizzie

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The...

Captain Olaf Bjornstad

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

April 1987 Captain Olaf Bjornstad, ex-Secretary General of the Norwegian Lifeboat Society. He was appointed an honorary life governor of the RNLI in 1972..

Category: Obituaries

52Ft Barnett Lifeboat Joseph Hiram Chadwick on Station at Galway Bay from 1968

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

52/r Harriett lifeboat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, on station at Galwav Bav from 1968 until 1977, when she was replaced by the present Barnett Frank Spiller Locke.

photograph by courtesy of National Geographical... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Upton Castle

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

The 1 steam trawler Upton Castle ran on to i the rocks off Cresswell about 3 A.M.

The vessel's signal for assistance was heard, and the Life-boat Martha was made ready for launching. The launch was only accomplished...

A Fishing Boat

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Torbay, Devon. At 2.58 on the after- noon of the 16th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was flying distress flags two miles south-south-east of Berry Head. There was a moderate north-westerly...