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1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Tourist Tangle

Date: Autumn 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 589

The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.

Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...

Category: Articles

Fifty Medals for Gallantry (4)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

On the 14th October, 1939, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of three of the barge Estrel, of London.

COXSWAIN THOMAS H. BLOOM was awarded the silver medal.

SECOND COXSWAIN WALTER J....

Category: Articles

List of Donations and Annual Subscriptions

Date: May 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 03

To view the article click on the View original layout link above.

Category: Donations

Kirby

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.

The boat...

A Dinghy and a Yacht

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...

A Rescued Man's Surprise

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

A MAN in a small boat who got into difficulties in a heavy ground sea was rescued by a life-boat. Sending his thanks to the' crew he wrote: "I expected to be told off for causing so much trouble. Instead I was treated with the...

Category: Articles

Ex-Provost Adam C H Todd

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Ex-Provost Adam C. H. Todd, chairman of Girvan station branch since 1947; he was awarded a statuette in 1968 and the silver badge in 1984..

Category: Obituaries

Mr Phil Parish,

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Mr Phil Parish, secretary of Hitchin and district brnahc since 1988 and committee member since 1985. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1998..

Category: Obituaries

Bob Vowles,

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

April 1998 Bob Vowles, St Peter Port lifeboat station mechanic. He also served at the station as assistant mechanic and a crew member.

Category: Obituaries