THE Committee of Management have lost a very active member by the sud- den death, on the 6th of July, at the age of 66, of Mr. Linton • Thorp, K.C., LL.B., J.P., Recorder of Saffron Walden and Maldon, and at one time a judge in Egypt and...
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Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
(Right) Trevor Evans, overseer ILB (Cowes) who has been concerned with the development, fitting out and maintenance of the D class inflatable lifeboat from the verv beginning.. - View image in PDF
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DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 526 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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Following a fantastic reception last year, the RNLI College's Mayday Food Festival returns to Holes Bay in Poole, Dorset on April 30. The foodie festivities kick off a month of fundraising with our pick of local and artisan delights,...
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On the evening of the 2nd March it was learned that the local motor fishing boat Tony had not come back from sea with the rest of the boats. Her owner was the life- boat coxswain, and he and two other men were on board. The coastguard...
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The Bird of Dawning
by John Masefield
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
The Bird of Dawning is a classic from 1933, recently republished by the National Maritime Museum with an introduction...
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THIS Life-boat, a full description of which was given in No. 171 of our Journal last February, was sufficiently far ad- vanced to attend the highly successful " Life - boat Saturday " demonstration which took place in Glasgow on...
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