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Devotion

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1952, a fisherman at Burnmouth tele- phoned that the motor fishing boat Devotion, of Burnmouth, with a crew of four, was flying a distress signal three miles...

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Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

NEEDED MEDICAL AID Clovelly, North Devon. At 11.45 p.m.

on 29th October, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by a Bideford doctor that a woman on Lundy Island needed immediate medical attention. At 12.30 a.m. the...

A Government Sea Plane

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

The Life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 27th September to the assistance of a seaplane belonging to the Government.

The seaplane had come from Sheerness and been beached near Hasborough...

Trailer Trainer:

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF

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The Wreck of the "Islander."

Date: November 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 304

A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in Lantivet Bay, about three miles from Fowey...

Category: Articles

Technical Developments In the Life-Boat Service

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.

Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...

Category: Articles

Bass, Alto and Vivendi (1)

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...

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Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...

Retirement of Commander T. Holmes, R.N.

Date: September 1919

Volume: 23

Issue: 267

IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...

Category: Articles

The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats

Date: February 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 163

THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...

Category: Articles