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Nova Espero

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly - At 7.20 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a ketch was in difficulties trying to roundthe Garrison from St. Mary's sound. The life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Sirocco

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Salcombe, South Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, it was learnt that the lighthouse keeper at Start Point had reported a small yacht was burning flares at Peartree Point. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 8.59 in...

Anglers Pride

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.19 p.m. on 5th December, 1965, the pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was firing flares threequarters of a mile south-east of Ramsgate and was drifting as her engine had broken down. The...

Win a Car

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...

Category: Articles

Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

COVER PICTURE After naming the new Whitby lifeboat, White Rose of Yorkshire, on May 21, HRH the Duchess of Kent went aboard to meet the crew. (1. to r.) Lieut.-Commander H. F.

Teare, RD RNR, divisional inspector of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lifeboat - In Danger's Hour By Patrick Howarth

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

David Jolly (Tiller Master)

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE Among the thousands sold were those to the first four multihulls home in the 1976 OSTAR and to a 40ft Wharram catamaran which sailed from Australia to the...

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RA Range Benbecula Outer Hebrides

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

A snooker match worthy of Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis took place at the RA Range, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Eight members of the sergeants' mess played snooker non-stop for two days, pocketing £386.45 for the Institution as a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coxswain John Graham

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

Coxswain John Graham (Griff) Griffiths of Salcombe. Coxswain Griffiths joined the lifeboat crew in 1962 and was appointed coxswain in 1973, a position he held until 1984 when he retired.

Coxswain Griffiths was awarded the...

Category: Obituaries

Decca Radar

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

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...

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