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Brilliant

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of...

Life-Boat Days In 1923

Date: December 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 280

500 Days raise £40,000.

OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.

This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...

Category: Articles

Competition Winner Will Be Taking Away An Avon Inflatable Complete

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Above - the competition winner will be taking away an Avon inflatable complete with Mariner outboard and trailer.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Glenbervie

Date: November 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 182

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...

A Seafire Aeroplane

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVONSHIRE.

At 3.10 in the afternoon the wife of the life-boat coxswain saw a Seafire aeroplane crash into the sea five miles N.E. by N.

of Clovelly. A moderate N.E. breeze was...

Howth

Date: February 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 215

On the 2nd May a large four-masted barque was observed at anchor in Torbay flying a signal for assistance. The Coastguard reported the matter to the Harbour Master, and within a quarter of an hour of the crew being summoned the Life- boat...

Retirement

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

Mrs. R. H. Robinson, of Reigate, who for 20 years was the District Organising Secretary for the R.N.L.I, in south east England, retired at the end of last year. Committee members of the 160 branches in the south east district subscribed to a...

Category: Committee

A Lancaster Aeroplane

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 4.40 in the morning, a message was received from the coastguard that it was thought that a Lancaster aeroplane was down in the sea about six miles from Anderby Creek. A light...

A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

MEN FOUND IN ROWING BOAT AFTER SEARCH Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the l l t h October. 1962. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishermen had set off at eight o'clock the morning...

What a difference a year makes

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

‘As well as a constant resolution to save lives at sea, there has been constant evolution in how we do it,’ said RNLI Chairman Charles-Hunter Pease at our AGM on 22 May.

It was a day of looking...

Category: Articles