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Adventure

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 7.29 in the evening of the 21st of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Methil police that a boat, drifting three miles off East Wemyss, was making S.O.S. signals on a...

A Greek Steamer

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Dover, Kent.—4th November, 1939.

A Greek steamer was reported to be in distress through enemy action and the life-boat put out with a naval officer on board. She was recalled, however, when she had entered the danger...

Sir Frederick Bowhill

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...

Category: Obituaries

Mignonette

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

CAUGHT IN A STRONG EBB Swanage, Dorset.—At 3.23 in the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.35 in a...

Dirk II

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...

Raymond Baxter

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee is pictured with Roger Royle. presenter of BBC Television's "Songs oj Praise' programme and Barr Hartley. Editor of the Lowcstolt Journal, recipients of RNLI... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hamilton Guild Lanarkshire

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

A beautiful setting and perfect weather ensured that an evening of wine, open sandwiches, fashion and music, organised by Hamilton guild, Lanarkshire, was a huge success, raising £1,400. The event was held in the garden of Mrs Kay... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Contents

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 529 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: BARBARA...

Category: Contents

Notre Dame de Calais

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 7th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a French fishing vessel appeared to be aground half a mile off Quern Buoy. At 7,15 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings.

Alexander Duthie

Date: November 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 162

NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHRE.—The Lifeboat Ullen Newman and John Bentley was launched on the 5th March to the aid of a small pleasure-boat, the Alexander Duthie, of Aberdeen, which had put outto sea during the morning intending to proceed to...