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Gellie

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...

Additional Rocket Stations

Date: April 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 02

We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...

Category: Articles

The Heroes of the Life-Boat

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

THERE'S a brave and gallant host Worthy of Britannia's boast, Lions of our sea-girt coast When there's danger on the sea.

Midst the tempest's blaze and blare, Thunder roll and lightning glare, They have...

Category: Poetry

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

BROADSTAIRS, KENT. — The boatmen at Broadstairs having some time since requested the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to place one of its self-righting life-boats on that station, and it being considered that such a boat might be useful, in...

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane (39)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 1 1TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the coastguard saw a British aeroplane brought down by the enemy off Selsey Bill. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, but there was only a slight sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched...

The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.

Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.

A...

Bose

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

The Bose® WAVE® music system Superb performance and style The streamlined WAVE music system produces a richness of sound you'd ordinarily expect only from bigger, more expensive hi-fis.

Bose patented dual...

Category: Advertisement

Brownies Were By Far the Greatest Moneyspinners In the Guide Friendship Fund Lifeboat Project: 1St.Woodseaves Brownies Sent In £33 After a Sponsored Skip — to Reac

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

Brownies were by far the greatest moneyspinners in the Guide Friendship Fund lifeboat project: 1st Woodseaves Brownies sent in £33 after a sponsored skip — to reach their target, each of 24 girls had to make 50... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...

When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, visited Tenby lifeboat station they left behind a tee shirt, and Jack Thomas, the branch chairman, duly paid this unusual £83.43 cheque into the bank. The... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs