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Above a Lovely Day

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

Above. A lovely day for a swim. Excellent weather over the two days made life a little more pleasant for the crews demonstrating righting techniques. Here the air bag on an Atlantic 21 brings her swiftly upright just off the depot quay. D... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Marie Leach

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

TOWING TROUBLES Ilfracombe, North Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 5th June, 1965, a small boat, four miles west of Bull Point, was reported by the coastguard to be in need of assistance. The life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched at 9...

A vintage legacy

Date: Autumn 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 613 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2015

Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...

Category: Articles

A Rubber Dinghy

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

APRIL 15TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.

It had been reported that an R.A.F. pilot was in a rubber dinghy in the Dee Estuary, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 18s..

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Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.

—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...

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Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

Flooding tide A PARTY of four wildfowlers, caravanning at Burnfoot on the Nith Estuary, on the north side of the Solway Firth, set off shooting at about 0730 on Monday January 19. It was about two hours after low water. Two of the party set...

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

Chairman of the Bradford Branch, and also of his work as Chairman of the Bradford Life-boat Bazaar, has been elected a Vice- President of the Institution.

The following awards have also been made :—• To the Rev. T. N....

Category: Awards

SteamBoat

Date: February 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 127

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—On the 9th November, at 6 A.M., it was reported that the fishing lugger Steamboat, of Arklow, which had proceeded to sea on the previous evening, had been overtaken by a heavy N.N.W. gale, which had sprung up at midnight,...

John Edmunds,

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

John Edmunds, coxswain of Hastings lifeboat from 1961 to 1971. He joined the crew in the 1940's and served as bowman from 1960 until his appointment as coxswain..

Category: Obituaries

THREE MATERNITY CASES

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

THREE MATERNITY CASES Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—A severe blizzard on the 12th of March, 1947, isolated Campbeltown. On the morning of the 15th a woman with child in the Southend district needed a doctor, and at 10.50 that, morning the motor...