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Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...

Clare S, Northern Star, Fair Ladies and Press On

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...

Boys Snatched from Block

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

LETTERS of appreciation signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., have been sent to the crew of the Eastney, Hampshire, IRB, Mr. J. Fletcher and Mr. R. Faro, for the rescue of two boys who were marooned off Southsea...

Category: Services

Opening of New Headquarters at Poole

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

THURSDAY, MAY 6, the day on which HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, came down to Dorset to open the new headquarters at Poole in the morning and name the new Swanage lifeboat in the afternoon, was both memorable and happy; a. day...

Category: Articles

Greek Award to Selsey

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...

Category: Awards

Letters

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...

Category: Correspondence

Celtic

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. -During the morning a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor life-boatThe Lord Southborough...

A Cutter from H.M.S. Marlborough

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.

On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...

Maldon Little Ship Club's

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Maldon Little Ship Club's sponsored row, an annual event, raised£1,681 for the Institution when it was held in January, 1985. Competitors braved sub-zero temperatures, ice floes and snow in order to complete the five-mile course on... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lionesse

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had fired three flares two hundred yards south of the Owers lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was...