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The Motor Keel Boat Lead Us

Date: March 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 379

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1956, a message was received that the motor keel boat Lead Us. of Whitby, was approaching Whitby harbour in very bad weather.

Later a message was received that because...

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Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

FELL ON ROCKS Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.6 p.m. on igth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the rocks at the Dhoon. The lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on temporary duty at the station,...

Christina

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE ABOARD Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen coming from a converted ship's boat a mile...

Cover Picture

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Electronic Eyes and Ears By Lieut Ernest Gough Rn

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...

Category: Articles

Steam Life-Boats

Date: August 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 81

THE question has often been asked—why are not life-boats propelled by steam power? It is a very natural question when we consider the difficulty of rowing any boat against a strong wind, and the much greater difficulty of doing so when, in...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

THURSDAY, 9th Juno, 1904.

Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.

Head and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

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

Category: Committee

Lifeboat Services

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Western Division MFV aground A RED FLARE fired over Barmouth Bar was seen by the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 2140 on Wednesday November 22, 1978. Just after he had alerted Coxswain Evan Jones, the honorary secretary...

Category: Services

Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.

THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...

Category: Services

Griff’s hidden depths

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

He was once best known as a TV funnyman, but these days Griff Rhys Jones is serious about theatre, documentaries and indulging in his passion for sailing

Griff is enjoying treading the boards. After a spate of television...

Category: Articles