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Decca Radar Ltd

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.

That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe harbours.

When the call is for solid...

Category: Advertisement

BUSY YEAR FOR COASTGUARDS

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

A record number of 2,878 people were rescued as a result of action by H.M.

Coastguards in the 12 months ending 31st March, 1969. This was 379 more than in the previous 12 months. Coastguards took part in 2,444 rescue...

Category: Articles

None (15)

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

DID NOT REVIVE At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1964, a nurse on Inishmaan Island reported that a doctor was needed to attend to a young girl who had been rescued from the sea. It was just after high water with a smooth sea and moderate...

Stranraer Ladies' Guild

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Last March, Stranraer ladies' guild pulled a few strings to organise a fiddlers' concert at Stranraer Academy under the baton of John Mason. It was a sell out and raised £622 to give the guild a great start to its fund-raising... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Trailer Trainer:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (169)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...

An Aeroplane (56)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 29TH. - RAMSEY, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN An aeroplane had been reported to Ramsey as having fallen into the sea six miles S.W. of Burrow Head, and the Ramsey life-boat was launched, as the Kirkcudbright life-boat was off service. At Peel...

Cheers!

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

For the more discerning palate on your Christmas list, look out for special packs of 10-year-old Talisker single malt with the Lifeboats logo.

These extra-special packs of award-winning Scotch whisky are now on sale in...

Category: Articles

Obituaries

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.

September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...

Category: Obituaries

None

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...