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East Meets West

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

On Sunday 12 May 1996 17,000 people took to the new Second Severn Crossing to raise funds for their chosen charities.

The 150 RNLI volunteers taking part put on their walking boots and collectively raised over £17,500 ... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Centenaries In the North-West

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.

It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...

Category: Articles

Stockport Auxiliaries' 9-Ft. Life-Boat

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

MEMBERS of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries, led by Mr. Wallace L.

Barber, aged 60, of 19 Roxton Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Lancashire, who founded the crew in 1937, have completed a model of a 37-foot...

Category: Articles

Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water

Date: October 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 18

THE management of a boat in the dangerous circumstances of a heavy sea and broken water, is altogether so practical a thing, that it may be thought no rules or instructions can be given which would be of much value to those called on to put...

Category: Articles

District Inspectors

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

In recent months several new appointments of district life-boat inspectors and assistant inspectors have been made. Below is an up to date list of their names and addresses.

Scottish—Lieut-Commander L. A. FORBES, R.N., 52,...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (2)

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...

Ruby

Date: May 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 120

KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK.—On the 13th January the Life-boat Bolton proceeded to the aid of the sloop Ruby, of Goole, which had been overtaken by a snow squall, and had been dismasted while passing through Pakefield Gap. Seeing that her position...

Bruckley Castle

Date: November 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 178

BRIGHTON.—The barque Bruckley Castle, of Glasgow, bound from Grimsby for Santos, Brazil, with coal and railway sleepers, in bringing up in order to land a pilot, in a moderate gale from E.N.E.

and a rough sea, stranded...

Breeze

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—The brig Breeze, of Blyth, was observed ashore amongst the broken water off the Coastguard Station at 7.15 A.M. on the llth of March.

The Charles Sargrave Life-boat went to her assistance, some of the...

Falke

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Engine failure A FISHING VESSEL, Falke, on delivery passage from the continent to Whitby on Monday December 18, 1978, put out a 'pan' message saying that she was broken down 60 miles east by north of Flamborough Head with no power or...