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BRINGING THEM HOME

Date: Winter 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 622 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2017-18

Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

TWO CASUALTIES TOWED TO SAFETY - CREW INJURED Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour...

Category: Services

News from the Branches

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

Annual Meetings: Financial Branches and Guilds.

CHELTENHAM.—On 18th July, Mrs.

Richard Davies, Chairman, presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...

Category: Branches

Porthcawl Crew

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

Porthcawl crew Rick Rava, Nick Beale and Steve Knipe (I to r) Photo: Sue Denny. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...

Category: Articles

News

Date: Spring 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 560

The first of May 2002 was a very special day for the RNLI, Falmouth lifeboat station and the county of Cornwall. Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, started her Golden Jubilee tour of Great Britain in Cornwall and...

Category: Articles

None

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK THE sighting of a man in distress on Culver Cliff near Minehead, Somerset, on 2nd July, 1972, led to a rescue by the local ILB. He was first seen standing on a small overhanging rock, about 50 feet up, waving a towel....

January

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JANUARY Launches 51 Lives rescued 103 JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s...

Category: Services

Robbery

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Survivors cling to upturned hull Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London was called to the rescue of three Dutch sailors on 2 June 1993 when their 34ft yacht lost its ballast keel and capsized off Selsey during a fierce squall in the...

Book Reviews

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.

This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...

Category: Articles