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A Little Dogged Determination...

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

The guests of honour at the annual RNLI coffee morning in Mayfield, East Sussex on 2 December 1995 were Keith Stevens, son of the stationmaster at Mayfield (in the days when they had a railway!) and now a member of the crew of the Selsey... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—On the 29th May the private Life-boat Henry Barney Upcher was launched to the assistance of seven boats which were returning from fishing off Blakeney, in a moderate to strong gale from N.N.E. and a rough sea. As the...

Marathon to Athens

Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Jane Cookson,

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

April 1996 Jane Cookson, treasurer of Morpeth guild. Jane joined the committee in 1974 and became treasurer in 1976, a position she held until her death. Jane was awarded the Silver badge in 1991..

Category: Obituaries

Mrs Mabel Horspool,

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Mrs Mabel Horspool, vice president of holyhead ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Horspool joined the guild in 1952 and held several offices. She was awarded the Gold badge in 1992..

Category: Obituaries

(Below) a Visit to Hq Operations Room

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.

With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Kiki and Catamaran Acarus

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

Two calls in gale NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT, the 47' Watson Kathleen Mary, was called out twice on Thursday, November 4, 1976. During the early evening HM Coastguard had been watching a yacht coming from the west, close inshore. As she turned in...

Special Gifts

Date: May 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 294

From a Boy of Seven.

The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in...

Category: Donations

An Aeroplane (4)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.

These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...

Rfd Inflatables Limited

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

SAFETY RFD are pioneers in the field of inflatable equipment.

They were the first company to introduce automatic inflation — the first to produce canopied liferafts - the first to receive Government Approval for liferafts...

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