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Rowing Boats

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon, on the 20th of August, 1950, a resident telephoned that rowing boats were in difficulties outside the harbour.

At 12.40 the life-boat Lily Glen- Glasgow, left her...

Close inspection

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

Keeping a fleet of 330 lifeboats and their associated kit in tip-top condition is no mean feat

With the safety of the lifeboat and the shore crews always paramount, the RNLI has rightly had a...

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Eclipse

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

Six of the fishing- boats which had put to sea on. the 28bb.

December were overtaken by a whole S.W. gale and heavy sea. The Life-boat Harmar was launched to their assistance and fell in with one of the boats named the...

Oswell

Date: July 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 29

between three and four a.m., signals of distress being seen from a vessel near the Newcome Sand, the Lowe- stoft life-boat was launched and proceeded to her aid. On arriving at the spot, the schooner Oswdl, of Abroath, was found to be on the...

Glencoy

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

COASTER ON ROCKS At 7.32 p.m. on the i6th February, 1965 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Glencoy had gone ashore and needed assistance. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbon No. 3 was launched at 8.5 in a light...

Soudan

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...

G. W. Pearns

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about...

Westkust

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

Scarborough, Flamborough, and Brid- lington, Yorkshire.—On the 9th of December, 1951, the Scarborough life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the Dutch motor vessel Westkust, and the Scarborough bowman lost his life.— Rewards, to FRANK DALTON,...

Sydia

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 16th September a party of three women and a man went cruising in the motor yacht Sydia. The sea was rather rough, with a strong N.E. breeze.

The yacht ran across the...

Try Coastal Spring!

Date: 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 595 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2011

Feeling thirsty? Keep an eye out for Coastal Spring Cornish spring water, which is sold in support of the RNLI.

For every plastic bottle of Coastal Spring sold in shops, and elegant glass bottles sold in bars and...

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