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Opposite, Middle And Bottom: The Candidates Are Put Through Their Paces With Radar, Admiralty Chart And Pilotage Plan

Date: Winter 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 579

Opposite, middle and bottom: The candidates are put through their paces with radar, Admiralty chart and pilotage plan Photos: Anne Millman. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Links With Local Life-Boats of the Past—The Old Life-Boat Station at Lytham With Its Windmill Partner

Date: December 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 426

Links with local life-boats of the past—the old life-boat station at Lytham, with its windmill partner, and (right) the old life-boat station at St Anne's which is now an ambulance station. Looking on is Mr. John Kennedy, honorary... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MAY 1 3TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

The body of an airman had been seen floating in the sea and at 4.25 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. A moderate E.N.E. wind was...

Anna

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

At 1.45 on the following afternoon the barque Anna, of Copenhagen, having stranded on the West Gunfleet Sands, the Life-boat was once again taken out, and proceeded to her assistance. It was decided to remain by her until the tide flowed, in...

The Sand Dredger Ron Woolaway

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.58 on the night of the 18th of June,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand dredger Ron Woolaway had capsized near Flatholm Island but that her crew of seven were safely...

List of Launches

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November and December WS and January and February 7999 Aberdeen Arun: Nov 12 (twice), 18, Jan 12, 13, 21 and 24 D Class: Jan 13 and 24 Achill Island Arun: Feb 27 Aith Severn: Jan 10, 31 and Feb 9...

Category: Services

The Life-Boat Exhibit In the Court of Heroes, Government Building, at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925 (1)

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

The Life-Boat Exhibit In The Court of Heroes Government Building at The British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1925. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Italian Medals for Cromer

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

THE Italian Government has awarded medals to the Cromer life-boat crew for their gallantry in rescuing thirty men from the steamer Monte Nevoso, of Genoa, in October, 1932. The steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands and had broken her...

Category: Medals

Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)

Date: November 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 118

RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...

Category: Services

'A fantastic legacy'

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.

BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...

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