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'Big Sister' Is World Leader

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...

Category: Articles

The Rescue Team

Date: Summer 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 553

1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (61)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JULY 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 10s. 6d..

An Aeroplane (134)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SEPTEMBER 7TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. An aeroplane was thought to have come down in the sea, but it had come down on land. - Rewards, £5 4s..

Mrs Jo Allam

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

Mrs Jo Allam, 'the lifeboat lady' of Weston-super-Mare, has made the lifeboat service her life for the past 27 years. Her husband, in the Merchant Service, was one of 41 men lost when ss Samtampa was driven ashore on rocks off Sker... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

Born on February 6, 1876, Henry Blogg served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world wars. He was awarded three gold medals for gallantry and four silver Five Cromer lifeboatmen who were in the crew...

Category: Articles

Seamen and Their Employers

Date: July 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 21

MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...

Category: Articles

R.N.L.I. Delegation's Visit to the United States

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...

Category: Articles

The Late George Lyall, Esq.

Date: October 1853

Volume: 01

Issue: 10

IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...

Category: Obituaries

Simple Shopping

Date: Winter 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 567

At last, a bag/ess, cyclonic vacuum weighing less than 4lbs.

Swivel head cleans right up to skirting boards.

Easy to use On/off switch Its low profile body enables you to reach into corners with...

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