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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...

Varley Dry Accumulators Limited

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.

This special boat needs a very special battery...

Category: Advertisement

The Wishing Well at Cawdor Castle the Fourteenth Century

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

The wishing well at Cawdor Castle, the fourteenth century home of the Thanes of Cawdor, also gives an opportunity to castle visitors to become RNLI well wishers. The picture shows a recent lifting of the grill and (I to r) Lord Cawdor, Derek... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Annalivia

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

A YACHT UNDER OBSERVATION in the River Mersey approach channel in the vicinity of C13 Buoy was reported to the honorary secretary of New Brighton ILB station by Formby Coastguard at 1655 on Saturday, October 23, 1976. It was foreseen that,...

Travelscope (1)

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNLI READER HOLIDAY OFFERS Ocean Cruise Collection On bOard the MV Van GOgh... Award-winning tour operator Travelscope is simply the name to trust for unbeatable Ocean Cruising at prices that...

Category: Advertisement

First Gold Medal for Ten Years

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...

Category: Services

Fundraising

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

Supporter recruitment manager, Sharon New, brings us the inside story on a new breed of RNLI street fundraisers and recruiters..

This summer you may come across some Lifeboats fundraisers that you have not seen before. They...

Category: Articles

Yla Section

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.

By joining the...

Category: Articles

Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...

Category: Articles

Progress (1)

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

Whitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— On the morning of the 23rd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Whitby fishing fleet were still at sea in worsening weather, and it was thought advisable that a life-boat should stand by the harbour bar to escort...