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Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Postage paid: Hoylake postmaster, Mr Thorley, seems stuck on one of his postmen, Steve McGowan who is also a crew member of the Hoylake lifeboat. But rather than tear him off a strip, it's several sheets to the wind! To mark the issue of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jubilee Fix It!

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Jubilee Fix it! Last year was an important year for the Scarborough Ladies' lifeboat guild as they celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. The spring bank holiday was packed with fund raising activities including a festival of flowers held at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Director's Cut

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

Brian Miles, RNLI Director, was guest of honour at the silver jubilee celebrations of Wilton and District branch. The party was held in July in the grounds of Wilton House and Cdr Miles cut the anniversary cake in front of 160 guests... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Myros

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Three saved from dismasted catamaran in storm conditionsP) lymouth's Arun class City of Plymouth made headline news locally when she went to the aid of the 35ft catamaran Myros. which had been dismasted in storm force winds on Thursday...

Johnno

Date: Winter 1995

Volume: 53

Issue: 531

Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...

Divers Do It Overland

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

In July seven members of Aylesbury Green Park sub-aqua club completed a two-day bike ride and raised over £965 - half of which was donated to the lifeboats.

The event was a joint fundraising effort between the diving... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Valkerye

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JANUARY 29TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

At 3.15 P.M. Mr. A. N. Cunningham, a member of the local committee, reported that the motor fishing boat Valkerye, of Pittenweem, lying just off the harbour, was showing distress...

St. Gerrard

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

NOVEMBER 27TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

A returning fishing boat reported that another fishing boat, the St. Gerrard, had broken down. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the weather was getting...

A Spitfire Aeroplane (5)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...

Rosedene

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.

About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather...