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Flying Spray

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

At 4.40 a.m. on loth March, 1967, it was reported that red flares had been sighted at the south end of the Sound of Islay.

There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was just after high water. The...

Falmouth's 52Ft Arun Class Lifeboat Elizabeth Ann

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, photographed during a service to the French trawler, St Simeon on February 15, 1985. Penlee and Plymouth lifeboats were also involved in the service, a full account of which will appear... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Obituaries

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

With deep regret we report the following deaths:.

Category: Obituaries

Mrs Maggie Melbourne,

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Mrs Maggie Melbourne, Vice chairman and founder member of the Burton St Modwen branch. Maggie first became a member of the branch in the 1960s and continued to serve the committee with great dedication until her death..

Category: Obituaries

Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.

The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Teignmouth

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Teignmouth is one of several stations re-opened over the last decade to meet the demand for greater lifeboat cover. The station was closed in 1940 and when it was reopened in 1990 the old boathouse was rebuilt and renovated.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Emma and a Motor Boat

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.

For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...

A Fishing Boat (4)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A local fisherman’s boat had got adrift and as the weather was too bad for another fishing boat to go out, the life-boat was lent to the men to recover the boat. - No rewards..

Woman in Water

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

The crew of Peterhead’s Tamar class lifeboat.

The Misses Robertson of Kintail, are pictured recovering a woman from the water into the Tamar’s inflatable daughter boat on 20 August.

Category: Articles

Finance In 1941.: Expenditure.

Date: September 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 9

Expenditure in 1941 was £279,225. That was £11,505 less than in 1940.

It was £105,150 less than in the last year of peace. The reason is that the building of new life-boats has now almost ceased. Only one new...

Category: Articles