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Handsome

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the Wick coastguard telephoned that a drifter was in difficulties off Sandside.

The life-boat H.C.J. was launched twenty minutes later. A moderate...

Martell Cognac

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

When you're saved from the drink.

For those who'll need a pick-me-up, there's a bottle of 3 star cognac on board every RNLI lifeboat. Courtesy of Martell..

Category: Advertisement

A Gift from Swedish Lloyd

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...

Category: Donations

A Fishing Boat (1)

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..

A Steamer

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

The Humber, Yorkshire.—22nd March, 1939. A steamer had collided with a trawler seventeen miles N.N.E. of the Humber. She was badly damaged and began to sink, but her crew were rescued by the trawler.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards,...

Dido C.

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Ilfracombe, Devon.—The new motor life-boat Rosabella rendered her first service on the 16th September, when she landed the crew of three of the ketch Dido C, of Barnstaple. At 10.28 A.M.

the life-boat was launched in a...

Yacht Colleen

Date: February 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 191

GREENORE, Co. LOUTH.—The schooner yacht Colleen, of Leith, lost one of her anchors and had the other disabled in a very heavy squall on the 27th August, and stranded about fifty yards W. of the Earl Kock, in Carlingford Lough. In response to...

Membership News

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Every little extra helps - covenants explained One of the messages we are constantly trying to put across is that all members should consider 'covenanting' their membership subscription.

Undoubtedly, the vast...

Category: Articles

Don't Get Carried Away

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Mablethorpe Crew Member Claire MacDonald recommends: 'Please take care with inflatables - the majority of our shouts are for dinghies and rubber rings. Take notice of any warning signs and be aware that offshore winds can take... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Two Sailing Dinghies

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Swanage, Dorset, At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of May, 1960, two sailing dinghies, one fitted with an outboard motor and each with two people on board, left Swanage Bay for Ringstead Bay near Weymouth. The dinghies belonged to the...