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Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

COVER PICTURE by Edward Mallinson The third Trent class, Blue Peter VII, pictured off the island of Alderney during crew training before going to her station at Fishguard. She is the first all-weather lifeboat to carry the 'Blue... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Duke Senior

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...

Wicklow

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Ben Venuto and Vanguard

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 9TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. The two local fishing boats Ben Venuto and Vanguard had not returned from the fishing grounds by 3.25 P.M. A S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At. 3.30 P.M the motor life-boat John and William Mudie...

Olev

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the Burbo Bank, half a mile...

AT A STORM'S MERCY

Date: Spring 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 615 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2016

Caught in the path of Storm Abigail, the crew of a broken-down shellfish trawler needed RNLI volunteers to come to their aid – quickly

As the storm passed over them on 12 November 2015, the 12 men onboard trawlers Genesis...

Category: Articles

News

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...

Category: Articles

Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies

Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...

Category: Articles

Moronel

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...

Reviews

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Abandon Ship, by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O.

Hodder & Stoughton. 7s. Qd.

Heroes of British Life-boats, by Gerda Shairer and Egon Jameson. Harrap.

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Category: Articles