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Memorable holiday

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

4A family’s holiday took an unfortunate turn on 25 August when their cruiser ran aground, injuring two of the seven onboard. Lough Derg’s B class lifeboat Vera Skilton was launched into force 5 winds gusting to force 7. Two RNLI crew members...

Category: Articles

Not Such a Catastrophe!

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

Not such a catastrophe! A black-tipped British shorthaired kitten named 'Oakley' shows great interest in the contents of the collecting box his owner Mike Evans, honorary secretary of Loughton and District branch, uses for the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Staithes and Runswick - Atlantic 21 Eihs Sinclair

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Mrs Vera Morris, wife of the senior partner in Sinclair Roche and Temperley, the firm of solicitors which funded the new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat, christens her Eft's Sinclair after the founder of the firm at a ceremony held at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Resolute

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Hastings, Sussex. At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the Hastings and St.

Leonards sailing club that a large yacht had reported to their rescue boat that a...

Mannin

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

MCH. 20TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

During the afternoon a whole gale sprang up from the N.W., bringing with it a heavy sea.

A watch was kept for the local fishing smack Mannin, which was at sea. As nothing...

Valhalla

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

FISHING BOAT TAKES YACHT IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht needed help three miles east-north-east of Spurn lighthouse but that a...

Lord Mottistone

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

ALL who are connected with the Lifeboat Service will have heard with great regret of the death on the 7th of November, 1947, in his eightieth year, of Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., P.C.

Category: Obituaries

Pilgrims' Progress

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

Remember the story of Martyn King and Alison Shaw from the Summer 2000 issue? The pair had started their two year, 7,000 mile journey along the coast of Britain, stopping at 185 lifeboat stations along the way. On 11 May 2000, they were... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Small Boat

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

SUNDERLAND, SOUTH PIER.—On Sunday morning, 2nd September, ' three young men put off in a small boat from Sunder land for a pleasure trip. When they started the wind was blowing from the N.W. and the sea was choppy, but afterwards the...

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Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.

She proceeded immediately in...