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A Fishing Coble

Date: November 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 226

A N.N.E. gale suddenly sprang up off Newbiggin on the 17th April whilst the fishing cobles were at sea, causing the sea to become very rough and rendering their return very risky. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was launched soon after noon, and...

None (5)

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

APPENDICITIS PATIENT At 1.50 p.m. on I4th October, 1963, a doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis who required hospital attention. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 2.30 in a...

Eventide (3)

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...

Having a Ball? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Having a hall? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow teed off in fine style to celebrate the raising of £2,105 for the City of Glasgow's Lifeboat Appeal Fund at a golf tournament held by Whitbread Scotland. The dimpled downpour took... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

One of a Series of Six Paintings

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

One of a series of six paintings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an...

Category: Drawings

Launch of Samuel Lewis

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Launch of Samuel Lewis towards the end of World War I bv horses from honorurv secretary Charles Grantham s farm. A driver sal on each horse, which was attached to the carriage b a trip link. As each horse approached deep water, his driver... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

FRANCE

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer helped 4,500 people during the summer of 1974 and saved from certain death 650.

The French lifeboat service is much occupied with the modernisation of its fleet. St Tropez lifeboat,...

Category: Articles

Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...

Category: Articles

Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St.Ives

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives, at the Royal Festival Hall last May to receive his second silver medal, signs the Knebworth and District branch's copy of Patrick Howarth's book In Danger's Hour for Mrs Hazel Entecott, branch... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Falke

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Engine failure A FISHING VESSEL, Falke, on delivery passage from the continent to Whitby on Monday December 18, 1978, put out a 'pan' message saying that she was broken down 60 miles east by north of Flamborough Head with no power or...