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St Simeon

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

People and Places

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.

The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...

Category: Articles

Cover Picture

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution

Date: May 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 84

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are—

1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

Category: Articles

Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Eastern Division Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio...

Category: Services

Argo Delos

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

On the 22nd of October, 1960, the Portrush life-boat rescued fourteen men from the Greek vessel Argo Delos. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Samuel Cunningham was awarded the silver medal for gallantry,...

Water works

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

Southern Water donated over £33,000 to the RNLI in 2009. The money was raised through a charity ball and a race day.

The company will continue to support the RNLI through 2010, and hopes to repeat the success of the...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Runswick, The S.S. Saltwick, The S.S. Fidra

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD JANUARY 23RD - 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.40 in the morning of the 23rd, a message came from the coastguard that the S.S. Runswick, of Whitby, had been in collision, and the lifeboat crew were...

Fishing Boats (4)

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, seven motor fishing boats left harbour on the ebb tide. The very heavy seas of the previous few days had moderated.

When the tide began to flow the sea got up again...

Trouble on the Trap

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...

Category: Articles