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Index to the Branches

Date: May 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 224

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Category: Branches

Portrait on the Cover

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain James Wilson of St. Abbs, who first joined the St. Abbs crew in 1947.

He was assistant mechanic from 1951 to 1953, when he was appointed cox- swain. Since he joined the crew...

Category: Articles

Awards Presented By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 May 1990

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Silver Medal for Gallantry Coxswain Alan Thomas, Tenby, Dyfed.

On 22 September 1989 the Tenby Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels in difficulties off Worms Head. The...

Category: Awards

Hauling-Off Warps to Life-Boats

Date: October 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 26

HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.

To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.

SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...

Category: Correspondence

The S.S. New Verdun

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At about 6 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel in distress and burning flares N.E. of House Sand Fort. She was the s.s. New Verdun,of Plymouth, bound from Middlesbrough for Portsmouth...

The S.S. Corfield

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.

—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.

As no other boat...

The Sailing Barge Davenport

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...

The Winning Touch

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Above: The overall winner - an Atlantic speed by Alan Sewell (nominated statio Far right: Winner of the 'Camera Action' section - R. D. Farnworth (nominated station, West Kirby) Near right: A colourful entry in the Volunteers'... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Vine, Barrogill Castle, Guiding Star, Kate, and the Alfred and Emma.

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

THURSO.—On the 11th November,during a strong gale from the S.E., at about 6 P.M., the Charley Lloyd Life-boat proceeded, at the request of the master, to the Vine, a vessel which was at anchor off Thurso, and brought ashore her qrew of 2...

The S.S. Lorentzen

Date: November 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 114

WHITBY.—On the 12th March, at about 1 P.M., the s.s. Lorentzen, of London, was seen to become unmanageable and to be fast drifting on to Whitby Rocks. As the crew were in great peril, the Robert Whitworth Life-boat proceeded to their aid.<...