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Operation Sterndrive Is a Big Pull for Supporters

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

Bryan Ralph (left) starts the big pull for Operation Sterndrive. With him are, from left to right, Trevor Lee (puller), Bryan Thompson (puller), 'Maggie' (helper), Janet Ralph (co-organiser and steerer), and Ken and Ruth Cookson... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Key-Side Concert

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.

(Photos courtesy Devon and Cornwall Press Agency (inset) and A. G.... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

M.F.V. Dumnonia

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...

Front Cover

Date: Autumn 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 554

Front cover Shoreham lifeboatman Ian Cosham brings a small child to dry land during the terrible floods in Uckfield. For the full story see pages 14 & 16.

Photo © Steve Edwards, Shoreham lifeboat launcher.View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mrs Connie Marsh,

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Mrs Connie Marsh, treasurer of Bn'dlington ladies lifeboat guild from 1977 to 1993, Mrs Marsh was also minutes secretary and souvenir secretary for the guild and was awarded the silver badge in 1991..

Category: Obituaries

April Pranksters

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

The proprietor and regulars of the Coalbrookdale Inn in Shropshire formed a group to undertake fundraising events on 1 April each year - these usually involve a weird and surreal April Fool's Day prank.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Arctic Cycle Challenge Completed

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Competitors who took part in the 1998 Artie Cycle Challenge have returned home safely from their gruelling cycle ride which started from Tromso in Norway and finished up in the northenmost part of Europe, Nordkapp.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Vernon Evans,

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Feb 1998 Vernon Evans, Cardigan helmsman from 1971 to 1986, station honorary secretary from 1986 to 1991 and DLAfrom 1991 to 1998. He was also chairman of the station management committee from 1996 until his death. Vernon has been previously...

Category: Obituaries

Another Day... Another Service!

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

Another day... another service! Poole's Atlantic 75 was called out a couple of weeks before the events chronicled above, and while in the middle of her naming ceremony, when Poole's shallows and tidal streams caught out another yacht... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Tom Jenkinson,

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

Tom Jenkinson, coxswain of the Filey lifeboat from 1967 to 1980.

Tom first joined the Filey lifeboat crew in 1947 and became bowman in 1959. He was appointed second coxswain in 1963.

Category: Obituaries