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Cornish Correspondent By John Corin

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...

Category: Articles

Courage and Grace

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

Famous for risking her own life in 1838 to rescue nine shipwrecked people, Grace Darling has inspired many a child and adult to support the lifeboats. The 175th anniversary of her brave actions will be marked on Saturday 7 September with...

Category: Articles

Violet and Evelyn

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

GORLESTON.—On the 13th November signals of distress were seen in a N.E.

direction, and rockets were fired from the St. Nicholas Lightship, in response to which the Life-boat Leicester proceeded out, and found the Violet...

Summity and Gronland

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 25TH. - DOVER, KENT. A 3.10 P.M. the Sandgate coastguard reported that a vessel which had been attacked by German aeroplanes was sinking off Sandgate, but said that naval motor boats were going to her help. At 3.30 P.M. it was reported...

Tessa and Tringa

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht between two and three miles off shore was burning a flare. At 2.3, when the life-boat Edian Courtauld put...

Book Reviews

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

Another valuable contribution to life-boat history has been made by Grahame Farr in his latest volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series. This tells the story of the South Devon life-boats (Wreck and Rescue on the Coast of Devon, D. Bradford...

Category: Articles

Past and Present

Date: Spring 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 532

25 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1970 At the RNLJ's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards in 1970 the then Chairman, Admiral Woods, referred to the recent formation of the Yachtsman's Lifeboat Supporters Association -...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: August 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 233

THURSDAY, 14th January, 1909.

The Right Hon. the EARL OF HARDWICKE in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Also read those of the Building, Finance and...

Category: Committee

Doctors In Life-Boats

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...

Category: Articles

Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...