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Yachts and a Sailboard

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Hawa-Dilli

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...

Slor

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 13TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress a mile east of Marina look-out. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor...

Jo-Anne

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...

Outrageous Grace

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Outrageous Grace
Taking the long way home

By John Otterbacher
Review by
Michael Masters

Outrageous Grace tells the true story of the author’s struggle against death – and...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 68

THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Category: Articles

Margaret and James

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 10th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Margaret and James was at sea in very bad weather. At 12.5 the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was...

Review

Date: Spring 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 587

The female shipwright

by Mary Lacy Review by Joanna Bellis

 

This is a tale of that old cliché, running away to sea. The difference here is that the escapee is an...

Category: Articles

October

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

Launches 74. Lives rescued 140.

OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack...

Category: Services

Feature: the RNLI Thanks You

Date: Autumn 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 566

The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd...

Category: Articles