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New £70,000 Life-Boat

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...

Category: Articles

Argus

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Dover, Kent - At 7.10 p.m. on 5th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties and drifting towards the Goodwin sands. At 7.22 the life-boat Faithful Forester was launched. It was three hours...

A Life-Boat Tale

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

Sound Services Ltd., Merton Park, London, who handle films for the R.N.L.I., said last year that following the loan of the film Part Time Heroes to Woodridge Junior Middle and Infants' School, Southover, North Finchley, London, they...

Category: Articles

Inventor Remembered: Mr. Eric H. Taylor

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

Through the death in the early summer of Mr. Eric H. Taylor, F.R.G.S., president of the St. David's branch of the R.N.L.I, and past secretary of the local life-boat station, the St. David's life-boat received donations in lieu of...

Category: Obituaries

Children's Friend

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

North Sunderland, Northumberland - At ii a.m. on 6th May, 1967, the life-boat mechanic informed the honorary secretary that heavy seas were breaking across the harbour mouth and that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was making...

Twenty-Five Years' Service:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Olline

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...

St.Bees 17Ft 6In C Class Inflatable Lifeboat

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Left: villagers and guests from all over Cumbria attending the service of dedication of the new St Bees 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday October 26, 1985. The lifeboat was paid for out of the bequest of the late Mrs Peggy... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Stop Press

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

Corrections The Spring 2007 centre-spread picture of the rescue team at Tenby included representatives of the local Police, Ambulance, Fire and Coastguard services, though these were omitted from the caption. Sincere apologies to all...

Category: Articles

Fraserburgh (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE On the 24th September, 1940, the Fraserburgh life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steam trawler Northward, of Grimsby.

CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour master and joint honorary secretary,...

Category: Medals