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A Naval Trawler Saved

Date: June 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 20

A vellum has also been awarded to Second-coxswain F. Upton, of Walmer, who, at great risk, went on board a naval trawler from the life-boat when the trawler was labouring in heavy seas close to the Goodwins. She fell over so far that the...

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A year of exceptional courage

Date: Spring 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 599 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2012

Dungeness lifeboat Crew Member Garry Clark is to receive the RNLI's Silver Medal for his bravery and determination during the rescue of seven people from the yacht Liquid Vortex on 3 January this year.

In a long and...

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Yacht in peril

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

20 March: Lymington and Yarmouth Five people onboard a 12m yacht, Sea Jay IV, called for help when her mast collapsed and went overboard after catastrophic gear failure in high winds off Hurst Castle. Lymington...

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Farmers stranded

Date: Spring 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 607 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2014

12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...

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Motor Fishing Cobles

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FEBRUARY 23RD. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.

At 6 A.M. four Staithes motor fishing cobles went out to fish. By 9.30 A.M.

it was blowing a strong gale from the E.N.E., with a heavy sea and rain. At 11.55 A.M....

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

National Lotteries YOU WILL FIND in this journal eight tickets for our fifth national lottery, also a reply paid envelope to use if you wish to take part. The tickets can be sold to any member of the public and not necessarily to members of...

Category: Donations

Fastnet Race Storm

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

DURING THE NIGHT of Monday August 13 and Tuesday August 14 southwesterly storm force winds, veering to west north west and gusting to hurricane force, struck the south-western approaches while the international Fastnet Race fleet of 306...

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A Swedish Life-Boatwoman

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

All Life-boat workers, and particularly those women who help in the actual launching of Life-boats, will be interested to know that there is now in Sweden a woman who is a regular swain had a daughter who had, from the ' very earliest...

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Protective Clothing

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...

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Blind Visitors Shown Round at Bridlington

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat station went out of its way some weeks ago to please a group of blind children.

Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, said a letter asking for this facility from the Tapton Mount School,...

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