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Britannia

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

BOAT AND FIVE TOWED TO SAFETY Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the evening of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor boat Britannia appeared to be having engine trouble three-quarters of a mile...

During Hyde Branch

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

How well do you know your onions? During Hyde branch's Christmas fair held at the town hall one of the attractions was to 'guess the weight of the onions'. Home-made cakes and preserves, crafts, plants, good-as-new items and RNLI... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

News and Views

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.

The...

Category: Articles

International Assistance from Westcountry Lifeboat

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.

The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an injured man off a120ft Spanish trawler in the sheltered... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Barry Bennett Has Been Coxswain of St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly Lifeboat Since 1991.

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.

Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (22)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...

Karen Maria

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.

At about 5.10 A.M. the Workington coastguard reported a red flare five to six miles away in a westerly direction, and asked for the life-boat crew to stand by. A westerly gale was...

An R.A.F. Speed Boat

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on...

Vega

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

AUGUST 22ND. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.

At 5 P.M. the coastwatchers reported a yacht dismasted off the Bailey lighthouse. A strong squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. A strong tide was running. The motor...

An Aeroplane (36)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 13TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.

At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles S.W. of Arbroath harbour.

A light southerly wind was blowing, and...