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Launching By Haul-Off Warp

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

The Haul-off Warp is used at nineteen stations, where the life-boats are launched off the open beach. It is a very effective method of getting the life-boat through the inshore breakers which might otherwise knock her back on the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coronation Honours

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

IN the Coronation Honours Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A.

secretary of the Institution, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and Captain Q. Craufurd, R.X., honorary secretary of the...

Category: Awards

Arthur Albright

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

ROUGH PASSAGE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.50 p.m. on 26th November, 1963, the medical officer for the port of Penzance and Mount's Bay area informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Arthur Albright, expected in the area at 4.10,...

Plymouth's Round House After

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Below Left - Minehead Guild

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Below left - Minehead guild commissioned this display in conjunction with Minehead town council parks who arranged the plot on one of the main approaches into the town. The display also featured in the Britain in Bloom competition in which... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gluckauf

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

FEB. 9TH - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

The German steamer Gluckauf, of Rostock, had struck the submerged wreck of the Katina Bulgaris, which had sunk the day before, but her crew were saved by the Norwegian steamer Nayland. -...

Weymouth's Arun Lies Afloat

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Weymouth's A/un lies afloat between two piles in front of the lifeboat house.

The access jetty is built over the remains of the old slipway and the station's Atlantic 75 is now in a purpose-built house downstream... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Tynemouth

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND On the 8th December, 1940, the Tynemouth life-boat rescued the crew of twentytwo of the motor vessel Oslo Fjord, of Norway.

MR. EDWARD SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze...

Category: Medals

William Miles

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

POBTHOAWI, SOUTH WALES.—The barque William, Miles, of London, bound from Havre to Swansea in ballast, stranded about half a mile east of Porthcawl, during a W.N.W. wind and a rough sea, at midnight on the 9ih August. She exhibited signals of...

lona

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Torbay, Devon.—At 8.50 P.M. On the 12th August the coastguard reported that a motor boat with five persons on board was ashore between Blackpool sands and Dartmouth. A gentle S.E.

breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. The...