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Profiles

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

Mr R. Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian, and Ex-Coxswain Calum Macdonald, of Stornoway, Outer HebridesMr Calum Macdonald, former coxswain of the Stornoway lifeboat, was one of three people to receive the freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the...

Category: Articles

Giles Named at Porthcawl's New Station

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

Giles named at Porthcawl's new station Porthcawl was blessed with a clear sunny day on 7 September 1996 when Anthony Clarke, nephew of famous cartoonist and RNLI supporter Carl Giles, named the stations new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, Giles.... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

courtesy of The Hull Daily Mail The Humber lifeboat Kenneth Thelwall is dwarfed by the blazing oil tanker Phillips Oklahoma. Sixteen seamen were taken off the tanker after a collision on 17 September 1989. Full details of the service on page... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 18th February the local fishing fleet put to sea, but the weather grew bad and all but four boats returned.

At 10 A.M. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched, to...

Maraat V

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...

Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

engines iere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life,the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

Category: Advertisement

Mermaid Marine Engines Limited

Date: Spring 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 464

engines Vere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life,the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.

MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in...

Category: Advertisement

A Dutch Life-Boat Service

Date: May 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 290

THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...

Category: Services

Edina

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JUNE 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.

At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore near Keiss Castle. The sea was smooth, with a light E.S.E. wind, but there was dense fog. The motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was...

Zona, Pisces

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...