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Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

We have lift offHovercraft to join RIMLI's fleet The first RNU rescue hovercraft will be in operation as early as January 2003, located in Morecambe. The decision to go ahead was made by the RNLI Executive Committee after successful...

Category: Articles

Ladybird

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Yacht on rocks A RADIO MESSAGE at 0924 on Thursday July 15, 1982, reported that a yacht was aground in the area of the Western Carracks, three miles west of St Ives. The honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station immediately assembled...

Blue Peter Goes to Sea at Beaumaris By Ray Kipling

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

THE COAST OF NORTH WALES JS QUJCt at the beginning of April with the storms of winter mainly over and the summer still to come. The weather can change in a few moments from bright sunshine to strong hail storms which bombard the magnificent...

Category: Articles

New Crew for Looe

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Childhood friends John Crabb and Verity Pope, both aged 17, have recently joined the crew at Looe inshore lifeboat station, in Cornwall.

They are both continuing family traditions: John's elder brother Ben is a crew... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Enfant de Bretagne

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...

Norman Forster

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...

Helmsman Frank Dunster

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island was prevented by illness from attending the RNLI's annual presentation of awards meeting in London last May to receive the bar to his bronze medal; it was awarded to him for his part in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tand th* R.N.L.I.

R.N.L.I. 41ft. Wilson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.

The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...

Category: Advertisement

Mrs D. Knowles-Franks,

Date: Summer 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 521

MAY 1992 Mrs D. Knowles-Franks, whose generosity helped to fund the Harwich lifeboat John Fison and the Tenby lifeboat RFA Sir Gnlahad..

Category: Obituaries

A Sailing Dinghy

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...