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Sail

Date: Winter 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 590

Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer...

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Top awards for our lifesavers

Date: Winter 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 602 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2012

The Pride of Britain Awards brought RNLI lifesaving to the attention of millions at the end of October when Hartlepool RNLI volunteers received the ITV Daybreak Emergency Services Award.

The volunteers and Hartlepool...

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CADABRA: Sandhursts' floating showroom

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.

At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...

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Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...

Category: Services

Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

Category: Services

Around the Coast

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

A LARGE CROWD gathered at Selsey on April 25 for the handing over and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat which is the gift of Selsey Lions Club. The lifeboat was presented by Mr A. E. Ryan, president of Selsey Lions, to...

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Cruser and Raven

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

About half-past four on the 7th July two small yawl-rigged yachts, the Cruiser and Raven, were observed by Holy Island fishermen to be running south before the wind off Berwick.

About 7 P.M. it was seen that these vessels...

Lifeboat Services

Date: Winter 1977

Volume: 44

Issue: 459

North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...

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A Memorandum on Salvage*

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

THE following memorandum has been prepared for guidance after consultation with underwriters. The memorandum deals only with the more salient aspects of salvage, and must not be regarded as an exhaustive submission on the law of salvage.<...

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Lives on the line

Date: Spring 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 607 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2014

As storms lashed our coasts last Christmas, a crew of sailors found themselves without engine or sail power – and drifting into the path of a 218m cruise liner …

When the Cowes lifeboat...

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