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Dignity at West Mersea

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Dignity at West Mersea The official opening and dedication of West Mersea's new lifeboat house took place at the same time as the naming ceremony.

Dignity is named after Dignity Caring Funeral Services, whose employees... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Resurga

Date: February 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 239

At 11.30 A.M.

on the 28th August a barge was observed riding at anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore between. Orfordness and Aldeburgh. She was labouring heavily, with the sea washing over...

Torquay Star

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

SHARK FISHERS TOWED HOME Torbay, Devon. At 6.55 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Brixham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel was flashing the international distress signal about three and a...

Mary E.

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

Crew member swims through heavy surf and scales cliff to survivor Simon Chadwick, a member of Bude lifeboat crew, has received a letter of thanks from the Chairman of the Institution following his first service call in the station's D...

Bookshelf

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

The History of the North Deal Walmer and Kingsdowne Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 (including post and packing)A new book by this prolific chronicler of lifeboats station histories - this time covering three...

Category: Articles

Book reviews

Date: Spring 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 623 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

Survival skills, intrepid explorations and coastal cruises – get ready for an adventure this spring

The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan

Category: Articles

RNLI News

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

Royal visit to four Scottish stations The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, visited four lifeboat stations on the west coast of Scotland during a two day visit in July.

On 21 and 22 July, the President met...

Category: Articles

Brave Enough Stand Up In Front of a Class of 14-Year-Olds

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.

They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Trawler

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...

Comanche

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 8.5 a.m. on 26th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Comanche had requested assistance as she was drifting towards Orfordness, dragging her anchor. The life-boat Alfred and...