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Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.

The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...

Category: Articles

The Dredger Samphire (1)

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry. — On the afternoon of the 80th of January, 1951, anxiety was felt for the safety of the crew of seven of the Tralee Harbour Commissioners dredger Samphire.

Nothing had been heard of...

RNLI Family: The life of the charity

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

Celebrating the RNU family, past and present

Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...

Category: Articles

Wreck of the Meridian

Date: January 1854

Volume: 01

Issue: 11

THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...

Category: Services

Selling the Life-Boat

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

When Rackhams, of Birmingham, held a British week during the period 8th to 26th August, 1967, the eight selling floors of their premises - some 488,821 square feet - were turned into a giant exhibition hall. The...

Category: Articles

The Ladies of Caister

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

THE presentation to Miss Alice Brown, vice president of the Caister on Sea ladies' life-boat guild, of a silver badge has created something of a record. For her family now holds one gold badge and three silver...

Category: Articles

The Creel Boat Kingfisher

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

WAVED FOR HELP Anstruther, Fife. At 11.6 a.m. on 5th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man in a small boat off Cellandyke was reported to be waving for help. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...

Trouble on the Trap

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...

Category: Articles

Poole: Coxswain Frank Ide at the Wheel of Poole's New 33Ft Brede Inner Wheel

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Poole: Coxswain Frank Ide at the wheel of Poole's new 33ft Brede, Inner Wheel. The autumn journal reported services by Exmouth's new Brede while on trials and on passage to station. While on a familiarisation run last September, even... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

When the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli Visited Cowes Isle of Wight on October 5 He Witnessed the Self-Righting Trial In Samuel White's Yard of the 37' 6" Rother Cla

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

When the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Cowes, Isle of Wight, on October 5 he witnessed the self-righting trial in Samuel White's yard of the 37' 6" Rather class lifeboat which will be stationed at Dungeness; he... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs