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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Date: March 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 23

The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...

Category: Articles

Columbia,of Stavanger

Date: February 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 79

On the 7th April, 1869, the Arthur Frederick FitzRoy life-boat, on this station, went off to the barque Columbia, of Stavanger, which, during a high wind and dense fog, had run ashore opposite the life- boat house, soon after midnight. The...

Constitution

Date: October 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 54

On the 21st July, the ship Constitution, bound from Liverpool to New York, with passengers and general cargo, struck on the Bank off Arklow. The life-boats at Arklow and Wicklow went off, with the view of rendering assistance. The vessel was...

Zephyros

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...

Lerwick

Date: January 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 438

Invited to the 80th general conference of the Norwegian Life-boat Society was Mr. Frank Garriock, Norwegian Consul in Lerwick. The Norwegian Society has 33 boat stations—32 in Norway and one at Lerwick, Shetland....

Category: Meetings

Defiant

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Broughty Ferry's Arun class Spirit of Tayside was called out to stand by the Granton-based tug Defiant aground on the Gaa Sands on 13 May 1988. Although the wind was only Force 4 from the SE a 6ft to 8ft swell was running, and...

Appeal updates

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.

The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...

Category: Articles

For sale: Land Rover for under £6?

Date: Autumn 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 601 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2012

The RNLI Flood Rescue Team Land Rover is now available as a Corgi model, along with its very own trailer and lifeboat.

With a recent run of wet Summers, specially trained RNLI volunteers have rescued hundreds of people...

Category: Articles

Thorsons

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE " "A Doctor's Proven New Home Cure For Arthritis" More than a million people in the United Kingdom have 'their lives impaired by ; arthritis. Osteopath, Giraud Campbell, has advised hundreds of...

Category: Advertisement

Vellums for Sunderland and Whitehaven

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.

Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...

Category: Awards