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A Ship

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...

November

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

Launches 28 Lives rescued None

NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of...

Category: Services

History laid to rest

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...

Category: Articles

Ra

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...

Sea Mist

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 1ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. On New Year’s Eve, at about 9.30 P.M., the coastguard notified the life-boat authorities that a boat was ashore on Christchurch Bar, but not in immediate danger. A moderate E. wind was blowing...

Harwich:

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Portrait on the Cover

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...

Category: Articles

Sea Rigs

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

MAINSAIL WAS TORN At 8 a.m. on i4th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on St. Agnes had seen a small yacht anchored off the Big Smith Ledges and appearing to be dragging her anchors.

There...

Ra (1)

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...

Moored Alongside Poole Quay on Passage to Plymouth: (Left to Right) City of Bristol (70-003) Monsun (Poland) and Rotary Service (50-001)

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

Moored alongside Poole Quay, on passage to Plymouth: (left to right) City of Bristol (70-003), Monsun (Poland) and Rotary Service (50-001). - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of J. P. Morris. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs