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Grace Darling

Date: October 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 22

WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...

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Eleonore

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

On the 20th March, at about 5.30 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat Roman Governor of Oaer Hun, was launched to the assistance of the brig Eleonore, of Tonsberg, Norway, which was showing signals of distress.

She went ashore about a...

Classifieds

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

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Clacton-On-Sea: Celebration of a Centenary Year By Jack Froom

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

A CENTENARY DINNER AND DANCE Was held at the Royal Hotel, Clacton, on April 21, 1978, at which Raymond Baxter, guest of honour and a member of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, presented the centenary vellum to the branch president,...

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People & Places

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Lottery The 41st lottery draw took place on Saturday, April 30 in the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket. This was the second time the event had been held in the store and was watched with great interest by local Saturday afternoon...

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Yachts and a Sailboard

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Autumnal adventures

Date: Autumn 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 621 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2017

As things outside take a chillier turn, explore new horizons from the comfort of home

For the artistic eye
Explorers’ Sketchbooks – The Art of Discovery & Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert<...

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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.

The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...

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Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

GIRL RESCUED FROM CLIFF FACE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, the Howth garda informed the honorary secretary that the local fire brigade had been called to rescue a girl who was unable to climb up a cliff...

The Caister Life-Boat Memorial

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

AT two in the morning on 13th November, 190 , the No. 2 Life-boat at Caister, Norfolk—the Beauchamp—was launched in a whole gale from N.N.E. with thick rain and a very heavy sea in answer to flares of distress, but she was swept back, flung...

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