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Fishing Boats (1)

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

At 10.30 A.M. on the 6th August, whilst the fishing fleet were returning from sea, in a strong northerly wind and rough sea, serious congestion took place in the harbour channel, and it was feared that serious damage might be caused to life...

Swanage - D Class Phyl Clare 2 and New Inshore Lifeboat House

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

Mrs Phyl Cleare stands alongside Swanage's new D class lifeboat during the naming ceremony for the lifeboat. A previous D class funded by Mrs Cleare is in the relief fleet and had conducted trials at the station prior to the allocation... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mary

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

At daybreak on the 21st April, the pilots on the look - out discovered a schooner stranded on the beach about two miles N. of Montrose. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mincing Lane mustered as quickly as possible, launched the Lifeboat,...

Mary Gowans and Trustful III

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Aberdeen.—At 4.53 on the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, the Gregness coastguard reported that two fishing vessels were making for Aberdeen, as it was too dangerous to enter Stonehaven Harbour. The No.

1 life-boat...

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Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Seal of approval Mumbles South West Division Mumbles lifeboatmen took part in an unusual rescue in July when they saved a seal from an early grave by freeing it from a fishing net.

The old seal, which is well known in the...

Squirrel Tales

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

AVAILABLE in a special memorial issue is the late Minnie Mitchelson Goodall's bright humane story, "Tales Told by a Squirrel", the royalties of which go to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Ideal for young folk, the...

Category: Advertisement

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Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

Search in breaking seas ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday, August 30, 1974, four young children were swimming in the sea off Golden Sands Chalet Park about one mile south of Withernsea ILB station. The wind was fresh and the sea rough and it was...

In This Issue

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

In this issue News 2 All the latest from and about the Lifeboats Letters 8 Sailing on through stormy seas 10 Highlights from the Chairman's latest ACM speech Lifeboats in action 14 Includes a Silver Medal-winning service Meet the fleet...

Category: Contents

St.Bernard's School Barrow

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Up, up and away.' Fund raisers launched 1,000 balloons from Si Bernard's School, Barrow to help buv a lifeboat. It was all part of a national event organised by the Keep Fit Association to raise cash for the RNLI. Terry Downing, hon... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Don

Date: August 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 129

. At 5.30 A.M., OB the 14th February, the schooner Don, of Aberdeen, bound to Sunderland with chalk, stranded on the South Barber Sand during a strong S.

wind and a heavy sea. The No. 2 Lifeboat promptly went to her...