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The Tom Tit, of Dover

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Dover, Kent;—At 1 P.M. on the 1st November a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a small boat was making signals of distress east of Dover harbour.

A moderate N. breeze was blowing, with a...

Around the Coast

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

Minehead: The Royal Corps of Transport is taking an Atlantic 21 into service on a target range off the Hebrides. Last December a detachment of men was sent to Minehead for exercises in launching and recovery with ILB crew members; it is one...

Category: Articles

Michael Joseph

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

Alun Richards ENNAL'S POINT • 'Those heroic volunteers who man the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's boats spring vividly to life in Ennal's Point.... the bravery of the lifeboatmen has been much neglected in fiction and...

Category: Advertisement

Not Everyone Who Buys a Special Excursion Train Ticket to London

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

Not everyone who buys a special excursion train ticket to London from Liverpool costing £7 finds herself arriving at Euston station heralded by Royal Marine trumpeters and the winner of a two-week Mediterranean cruise for two people. It... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jonas Oxley 81-Year-Old Ex-Coxswain Of

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

Jonas Oxley, 81-year-old ex-coxswain of Walton and Frinton lifeboat and the holder of two bronze medals and the Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificate, presents an angling trophy to Cecil Ellis for the heaviest catch at last year'... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cogswell & Harrison Ltd.

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT DYNALITE FLASHES The world's most powerful flashlight, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power and is entirely waterproof, made of strong plastic and...

Category: Advertisement

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hands the RNLI's new colour to Coxswain Leonard Patten of Newhaven.

Partly obscured is Mr James Westoll, Chairman of the Clothworkers' Foundation, which sponsored the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Liner Calypso (1)

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...

The Liner Calypso (2)

Date: Summer 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 577

Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...

Platypus

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

DECEMBER 12TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 8.50 at night the coastguard reported a small vessel flashing SOS signals half a mile east of Heugh Light. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was slight. The motor...