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Overheard on a Bus

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.

A member of the Institution's staff was recently...

Category: Articles

M.V. Robert

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

Coal cargo shifts THE CREW of Clovelly lifeboat, the 71' Clyde Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at anchor in Lundy Roads at 1125 on Tuesday, January 21, sighted MV Robert and saw that she had a 30° list to starboard. As...

A Dinghy

Date: March 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 427

Hoylake, Cheshire - At 12.43 p.m. on 23rd November, 1968, while the lifeboat Oldham IV was on exercise, a report was received from the coastguard that a dinghy had capsized off Sandhay slipway. There was afresh south westerly wind with a...

A Salmon Yawl

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...

A New Atlantic 21 Lifeboat

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

A new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was handed over at Queensferry, Firth of Forth, on August 29, 1981. The gift of Major Basil R. F. Mac Nay in memory of his mother, Mrs Constance MacNay, she was received on behalf of the RNLI by Mr W. F. G. Lord,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Pioneer (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

Early in the morning the assistant harbour master saw distress signals coming from the bay. A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat John and Charles...

Launch of Courage on our Coasts

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

The work of award-winning photographer Nigel Millard is to be showcased in a new book and exhibition for the RNLI. Nigel is a volunteer crew member at Torbay Lifeboat Station and for the last 2 years he has dedicated his professional life to...

Category: Articles

Salvenio, of North Shields

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...

£10 for a Penny

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

AN envelope with a penny stamp was in the Institution's post the other day.

Inside were ten £1 notes.

ThereTwas no letter or name with them. The postmark on the envelope was Bristol..

Category: Donations

None (1)

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

ON the 15th of May, 1951, the Flam- borough life-boat went out to save a.

boy, fallen over a cliff.

For a full account of this service, and list of rewards, see page 205..