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Fairweather Father

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A...

Stranraer:

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Douglas

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Sunday January 26, 1986: a woman had suffered a suspected heart attack aboard the Belfast to Liverpool ferry, St Colum I. At 0313 Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson class, R. A. Colby Cubbin No 1, launched with the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

A Sea King helicopter from 202 squadron RAF Brawdy flies past the naming ceremony site at Tenby on September 29, 1986, in salute to the station's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, RFA Sir Galahad. A description of the proceedings can be... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Special Appeals

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...

Category: Donations

None

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

Prompt action at Margate saves a life Margate's lifeboat coxswain Peter Barker and crew member Clive Simpson saved a man's life without recourse to the station's Mersey or the D class inflatable.

On Saturday 3...

Today's Lifeboatmen

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 8 February 1993 show that during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,439 times (an average of more than 14 launches a day) 1,371 lives have been saved (an average of more than 3 each...

Category: Articles

Robbery

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Survivors cling to upturned hull Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London was called to the rescue of three Dutch sailors on 2 June 1993 when their 34ft yacht lost its ballast keel and capsized off Selsey during a fierce squall in the...

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.

Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs