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The 35ft Pilot Cutter Leslie H.

Date: Spring 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 464

Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...

Letters

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

Pilgrimage to Barmouth My wife-and I return home to America tomorrow and take pleasure in sending you a traveller's cheque for £50.

With it we extend our grateful thanks for the kindness and hospitality which you...

Category: Correspondence

Four Gallant Services

Date: February 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 268

AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...

Category: Services

A Manx Tale

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...

Category: Articles

The Centenary Dinner

Date: December 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 282

A DINNER in celebration of the Institu- tion's Centenary was held at the Hotel Cecil, on 2nd July, 1924. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. (the Institution's President) presided, and those present numbered 478, among them being...

Category: Articles

North Again...

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...

Category: Articles

The Loss of the Steam-Ship 'London'

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: November 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 285

Hull's Special Report.

AT the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held on 31st March, the Lord Mayor (Councillor Digby Willoughby), one of; the Presidents of the Branch, proposed that Hull should make a special effort to...

Category: Branches

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Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...

Feature a Hazardous Industry

Date: Autumn 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 562

Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...

Category: Articles