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Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Trinity House by J. GROSVENOR (Staples Press, 15/-.) is a factual and ably written account of the work of the great organisation which received its charter in 1514 and which today is responsible for so many essential services, including the...

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Functional Clothing

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

btur needs are simple Our many hundreds of industrial customers include the Dutch.

German. Spanish and Swiss life boat services and all Dutch sea pilots as well as all UK TV companies and most other public services...

Category: Advertisement

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Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

Saved from drowning IN THE EARLY EVENING of Saturday September 12, 1981, two girls, Leanne aged 10 and Lorna aged 8, were playing near the water's edge at Splash Point, to the east of Watchet Harbour mouth.

The weather...

RNLI 1602 Club. PLI Ltd.

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

NO J O I N I N G FEE! Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution 1 6 0 2 C L U B S P E C I A L O F F E R F O R RNLI M E M B E R S Save up to 30% on Regional, National and International calls and help contribute to RNLI funds! -. —f-...

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RNLI West Country Marketing Group,

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

WHEN OTHERS SEEK SHELTER The first Trent Class lifeboat 'RNLB The Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma' by Christopher Southcombe The original painting, which now hangs at Broadlands, was presented by the artist to the Countess...

Category: Advertisement

A Minister's Plea for the Life-Boat Service

Date: November 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 266

SPEAKING in the new Parish Church, Ardrossan, on Sunday, September 15th, the Rev. R. P. Fairlie, taking the text Mark iv. v. 41, pointed out that, while several of Christ's disciples were fisher- men, their work was only on a little...

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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.

JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....

Category: Services

Zetland

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...

Category: Articles

Double Toil and Trouble

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour

Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...

Category: Articles

A Little-Known Work By Sir William Hillary. Plan for a Steam Life-Boat

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

No doubt most readers of The Lifeboat possess a copy of Britain's Life-boats, by Major A. J. Dawson. They will find in Appendix A in that book a list of the works of Sir William Hillary, whose Appeal to the British Nation, published in...

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