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The Best Essay

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.

"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.

IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...

Category: Articles

Portrait on the Cover

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Leslie Charles Pennycord, of Selsey. He has been an officer of the boat for seventeen years, four years as second-coxswain and thirteen as cox- swain..

Category: Articles

Portrait on the Cover

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Thomas Lord, of Ramsey, Isle of Man. After serving as bowman of the Ramsey life-boat for nearly three years, he was appointed coxswain in October, 1930..

Category: Articles

The Sailing Boat Seabird

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Caister, Norfolk.—On the 3rd January seven young men put out in the sailing boat Seabird on a trip to the steamer Crackshot, which had stranded off Caister two days earlier. A fresh west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The Seabird got...

The Thames on Trial

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

Stages in the self-righting trials of the 50ft Thames type at Brooke Marine Ltd, Lowestoft, in May and pictures of her at speed off the Suffolk coast by courtesy of Ford Jenkins and Brooke Marine Ltd. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Beauty and the Beast!

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

Pictured in full crew kit is area organiser Bill Leech, with one of the lady models, Beverley Clarke. - View image in PDF

(Our apologies to the good-humoured Bill Leech for the headline! - Ed) Photo Richard Suthons. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Phone the World

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

When every second counts...

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Category: Advertisement

1. the Audience

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

The audience is spell bound during the review of the year film. (Send in your snippets of 2006 for consideration for next year's review to Film and Image Manager Eleanor Driscoll at RNLI Headquarters). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Prawn Boat Capella

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 19TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

At 10.10 A.M. information was given by an incoming trawler that the mast and sail of a vessel could be seen above water about a mile west of Wyre Lighthouse. A southerly wind was...