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The Shipwrights' Exhibition

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

BY the kindness of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the Life-boat service had a space at the exhibition of ships' models and equipment which the Company held in London from 28th January to 8th February of this...

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On the ropes

Date: Autumn 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 621 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2017

A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures

For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...

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Eastbourne Lifeboat the 37Ft

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

News from the Branches

Date: June 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 281

ON account of the simultaneous pub- lication with this issue of a special Cen- tenary Number, and our intention to publish in the next issue, wh;ch will appear in November, an illustrated!supplement, with an account of the various Centenary...

Category: Branches

The Merry Cobbler:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

The merry cobbler: Fakenham shoe mender Chris Thomas, who is also a member of the re-formed Fakenham and District branch, dressed his mechanical shoe-mending dummy in lifeboatman's gear to attract attention during the town's flag... - View image in PDF

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The Destroyer Scharnhorst

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.5 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1961, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the island of Brechon that a vessel to the north-west of...

The Danish Gun Boat Vaedderen

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.40 a.m. on 8th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish gunboat Vaedderen had a seriously sick man, the skipper of Grimsby trawler Northern Chief, on board and was proceeding to...

The Name's Bond...

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Rye Harbour: the Remains of the Tiger Moth Whose Crew of Two Were Rescued By Rye's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat on August 27 (See Right) Photograph By Courtesy of Mary Lestocq

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

Rye Harbour: The remains of the Tiger Moth whose crew of two were rescued by Rye's D class inflatable lifeboat on August 27 (see right). photograph by courtesy of Mary Lestocq. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Life-Boat

Date: May 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 196

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. . Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view....

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