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Cistus

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the county police rang up to say that the yacht Cistus with a crew of four had struck an unlighted buoy in the Wyre Channel and had sunk. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...

Gwendoline

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their...

Some Heroes of 1913

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...

Category: Articles

Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 725.)

Date: October 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 62

(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

Thursday, 14th January, 1915.

The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.

Read the minutes of the Building,...

Category: Committee

Sprat

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CRAB BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, the fisheries officer informed the honorary secretary that a crab boat from West Runton was in difficulties off the...

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Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

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Category: Advertisement

A New Superintendent at the Depot

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.

Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...

Category: Committee

Two New Life-Boat Films

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...

Category: Articles

South/Midlands/East Community News

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2018: South/Midlands/East Community News

Cowes

COWES CUTS ITS PLASTIC

As well as saving lives at sea, Cowes lifeboat crew are playing their part in saving the planet – by cutting down on plastic. Small changes can make a big difference and, in...

Category: Articles