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Wolverhampton Branch

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

There is nothing you might not be called upon to do as honorary secretary of an RNL1 fund-raising branch. Bob Proudlock, honorary secretary of Wolverhampton branch, proved this point when West Midlands Police Sub-Aqua Club, having swum five... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats (5)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

DECEMBER 1ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

While the local fishing cobles were out, wind and sea increased, and some of the boats returned, but five stayed out. By 1 P.M. a strong N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 1.30...

Azha

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

On 13th November the Life-boat Samuel Lewis rescued the crew of the brig Azha, of Arendal. (For particulars, see p. 35)..

Launching Life-Boats By Caterpillar Tractor

Date: August 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 270

Two photographs taken at the trials at Hunstanton, which were described in the May number of "The Life-Boat.". - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Canoe (1)

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight- At 11.10 a.m. on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a canoe had capsized near ScratchelPs Bay.

The two crew members, who were clinging to the canoe, were being...

Proud Occasion

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

Rob Blann (right) is pictured with the pub licensees Peter and Linda Sim at the re-naming of the pub.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Sheerness Bless

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

During the Summer, a wedding blessing was held for the first time aboard the Sheerness lifeboat, George and Ivy Swanson.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Pilot Me II and Success

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At midday on the 25th of February, 1950, a strong north-easterly wind was bringing up a dangerous sea on the Harbour bar, while the local motor fishing vessels, the Pilot Me II and Success were still at sea. At 12.15 the...

Tarka

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

JUST IN TIME Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of September, 1947, the Grove Point coastguard re- ported that a motor boat had broken down, and that signals were being made by the people on board. The motor life-boat...

Pilot Me

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 19th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy breaking swell at the harbour bar, and at 12.34 the No. 1 life-boat J. W.

Archer, on...