Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services
(Below) There were no open days in 1994 as the new facilities at Cowes were under construction. This was the first opportunity for visitors to see how the Atlantics are built and maintained in their new purpose-built workshops.. - View image in PDF
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Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
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£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
Category: Donations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
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THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE Engraved bolster, selectively plated with 22 carat gold, features an intricate portrayal ol the rainbow trout.
Issued in a Collector's Edition.
Handsomely...
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Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella was aground off Eilean...
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Lifeboat postcards of other days: (above) Launch of the lifeboat from Margate Pier, 1903 . . .. - View image in PDF
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