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Swordfish

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

Coverack, Cornwall - At 6.12 p.m. on 3rd September, 1969, the honorary secretary was told that a red flare had been seen about two miles south of Blackhead. Although the coastguards could not confirm this sighting, the life-boat William...

Today's Lifeboatmen

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 July 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,900 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) 401 lives have been saved (an average of nearly two a...

Category: Articles

Moya

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

Dungeness, Kent.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1953, the Rye harbourmaster reported through the Fairlight coastguard that a yacht one mile east of Rye harbour was making distress signals. At 6.30 the life-boat Charles...

Sail Safari -- It's a Lifeboat Knockout!

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25 September. The event was part of the RNLI's... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Providence and Children's Friend

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma, which was placed at Amble when that lifeboat station was reopened at the beginning of 1939, received her first service call at 8.30 A.M. on the 15th March.

1939...

D Class In Search for Cliff Fall Victim

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Boston Ahoy!

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Boston ahoy! re cannot be many branches that have their committee meetings at, but the Boston branch is one. Thanks to the support of new imittee member Sarah Simms, the committee now meet on her t. the Boston Belle. The 're-launched'... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Premier

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

ENGINES HAD STOPPED As the fishing coble Premier was known to be at sea and the weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled at 7.30 a.m. on loth November, 1963. At 9.10 the coastguard informed the honorary...

Book Corner

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...

Category: Articles

Marzealine

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Weymouth. Dorset.—At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, a local sailing club asked if the life- boat would put off to the help of the yacht Marzealine, of Le Havre, which, after going ashore, had refloated but was in danger of...