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Boxing Clever

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

During the filming of the BBC television drama series 'Lifeboat', due to be shown this Spring, members of Penarth ladies' guild were asked to man fundraising stalls and act as extras.

The ladies make their... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Springing Spaniels Anyone who has been on speaking terms with a very lively Springer Spaniel will hardly be surprised that a significant number of dog-and-lifeboat incidents seem to involve the breed... Including the one which made the...

Richard Cobden

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

During a whole gale of wind from the S.W. on the 10th February the Life-boat was launched at 5 P.M., and proceeded to the schooner Richard Cobden, of Swansea, bound from Briton Ferry to Freeport, U.S., with coal, which was flying a signal of...

A Dredging Barge

Date: February 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 83

A dredging- barge was in imminent danger of going down near the east end of this harbour during a whole gale of wind on the 9th March, her anchor having dragged and the sea breaking over her. The only hope for her crew of 4 men was the...

Caterina

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

WINTEBTON, NORFOLK.—The fishingsmack Caterina, of Boulogne, stranded on Hasborongh Sand on the 25th Jane. The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Husband went to her assistance, and remained by her for about three hours until she floated, when the...

Two New Life-Boats Named

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

NEW life-boats provided for the stations at Islay (Hebrides) and Penlee (Cornwall) were formally named during the summer. The Islay ceremony took place on the pier at Port Askaig on the 22nd of July, 1960, when Lady Jean Fforde named the new...

Category: Inaugurations

Past and Present

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

25 years ago This issue of the journal will appear at the 1994 London Boat Show, exactly 25 years after the launching of what became the Institution's Membership Scheme: The Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters Association from THE...

Category: Articles

A Great Life-Boat Worker

Date: December 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 22

By the death on September iyth. of Mrs. Edith Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Institution has lost one of the most devoted and successful honorary workers whom it has ever had. The Life-boat...

Category: Articles

Viucennes

Date: November 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 258

At 9 A.M. on the 25th March, a three-masted barque was observed on the Codling Bank, and the Motor Life-boat Robert TheopMlus Garden was dispatched to her assistance.

Owing to the fact that the Life-boat had to proceed in...

Pauline May

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

At 10.57 A.M. on the llth September a boat- man at Frinton telephoned, through the Coastguard, that a small yacht was in difficulties off Frinton, and was flying a signal of distress. The Motor Life-boat E. M. E. D. was launched, and found...