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A Dinghy (2)

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 1.35 p.m. on 9th April. 1967, the British Rail steamer Faringford informed the honorary secretary that a small dismasted sailing boat was drifting rapidly towards Hurst. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe...

Mary Robinson and Eventide

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.55 p.m. on I3th January, 1965, the honorary secretary told the coxswain to launch the life-boat and escort two cobles Mary Robinson and Eventide to safety as there was fear for their general well being owing...

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

Spitfire

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the evening a flatbottomed fishing boat, the Spitfire, of Rosslare Harbour, was bound for Tuskar with a crew of four. A S.W. wind was blowing.

It increased and backed to...

"We Have to Go Out - We Don't Have to Come Back."

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...

Category: Articles

No Mystery for Poirot!

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

No mystery for Poirot! Despite the fact that they were filming a 'whodunnit' there was no mystery about the benefits to Salcombe lifeboat when a London Weekend Television film crew spent two weeks in the town.

The... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Laity F. (1)

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity Fwas on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: October 1853

Volume: 01

Issue: 10

BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...

Category: Articles

Mr. G. B. Dixon, of Walthamstow

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

By the death of Mr. George B.

Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the...

Category: Obituaries

Marathon to Athens

Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs