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Orwell

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9 a.m. on 25th February, 1967, a message wasreceived that a local doctor wanted the assistance of the life-boat to land the master of the motor vessel Orwell. The vessel was due at St. Ives at 9.20 in a near gale...

(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia was awarded the silver medal for the rescue of ten men from the motor vessel Oranmore in 1970.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Right) Trevor Evans Overseer Ilb (Cowes)

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

(Right) Trevor Evans, overseer ILB (Cowes) who has been concerned with the development, fitting out and maintenance of the D class inflatable lifeboat from the verv beginning.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Martell Cognac

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

The warmest drop in the ocean • Abottleof3-star Martell brandy is carried on every lifeboat in British waters for the comfort of survivors..

Category: Advertisement

Vincente

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Life-boat 70-001. Bristol Channel - At 6.35 p.m. on the zyth July, 1967, the coxswain intercepted a message from Ilfracombe radio to the yacht Vincente which had requested assistance. The lifeboat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service...

A Dinghy (9)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.25 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in difficulties in the Sound of Arisaig, off Glenuig. The life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her moorings at 5.35 in a fresh south south...

(Below Right) Grace Darling,

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

(Below right) Grace Darling, the last Liverpool class to be built tin 19541, and also on display at Chatham, shows the typical shape of a non selfrighting lifeboat of the era.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mrs Jill Pratt,

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Mrs Jill Pratt, former chairman of the Penwortham branch from 1974 to 1994. Mrs Pratt joined the Committee in 1965 and was presented with the silver badge in 1985..

Category: Obituaries

New Lifeboat and Station In Burnham-On-Sea

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Crew Members Phil Cowie, Jason Coombes and Nick Prout watch from the lifeboat while Jonathon Whitfield and his sister, Julie White, pour champagne over the bows during the naming ceremony Photo: Mike Lang. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (183)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

DECEMBER 7TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval authorities. - Rewards, £15 12s..