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St. Georges

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

RED FLARES At 3.15 p.m. on nth Janurary, 1966 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler St. Georges was burning red flares just inside the West Gorton buoy. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick responded at 3.30...

Mignonette, of Southampton

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.28 p.m. on 12th September, 1966, red flares were sighted in Weymouth Bay. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left her moorings at 8.48 in a strong westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. She proceeded to a...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Coxswain JohnW. Gerrard, of the Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble. Appointed second coxswain in 1955, Coxswain Gerrard, who became coxswain in 1965, joined the crew in 1935. Since he joined the crew, Blackpool life-boats have been launched... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Launcher Will Soon Be 100

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.

It is recalled that, with his brother who...

Category: Articles

Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

Electronic aids to navigation and sailing The chart tpaa In "Winsome", a Nicholson "43" finished by the Berthan Boat Co. Ltd., Lymington.

The navigational instruments, from left to right, are as follows:...

Category: Advertisement

Flashback To'85. Simone Nylander and Erkan Mustafa - Stars of 'Grange Hill'

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

Flashback to '85. Simone Nylander and Erkan Mustafa - stars of 'Grange Hill' - launch Storm Force in the company of Staff Coxswain (now the RNLI's Assistant Training Officer) Edward Mallinson and members of the Calshot... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Captain W.J. Law,

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

JUNE 1995 Captain W.J. Law, president of Stanmore branch. He joined the branch in 1978 and for 16 years was the flag week organiser, receiving a Silver badge in 1989. Captain Law was appointed president of the branch in 1994..

Category: Obituaries

Arbroath Guild

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

The biennial Caledonian market is a highlight in Arbroath guild's calendar.

Opening at 10.30 on the first Wednesday in August, with a queue forming at 9 am, members of the local 'Old Men's Club' take a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mr George Wyeth

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Mr George Wyeth, honorary treasurer of Bognor Regis Branch from 1968 until the early I980's. He joined the branch committee before the second world war and was awarded a silver badge in 1976..

Category: Obituaries

John Corin

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

John Corin, president of Coverack Branch since the early 1970's. He joined the committee in 1951 and was appointed branch auditor. He was chairman and deputy launching authority from 1956 to 1979 when the lifeboat was withdrawn.

Category: Obituaries