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A Landing Craft

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...

A Landing Craft

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

AUGUST 29TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A landing craft had been reported in difficulties with her engine broken down, but she anchored, and the life-boats were not needed. - Rewards : Aberystwyth,...

A Small Invasion Craft

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small invasion craft had been reported ashore, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £13 13s..

A Landing Craft

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JANUARY 10TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE, AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

A landing craft had been reported missing, but nothing was found. Then bodies were washed ashore. The landing craft had foundered in a gale and all her crew of...

2d. a Week

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..

Category: Donations

Lleyn Peninsula: Abersoch Criccieth Porthdinllaen and Pwllheli By Joan Davies

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

JUTTING OUT boldly into the Irish Sea, open to winter gales from most points of the compass, the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales has its share of hazards to shipping. Over the years many vessels have been wrecked on its shores and...

Category: Articles

U.S. Coast Guard Visit

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

A helicopter from the US Coast Guard cutter Dallas carried out an air-sea rescue demonstration with Poole's Brede class lifeboat Inner Wheel in Poole harbour on 2 June 1994.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Shipwreck

Date: November 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 90

A shattered bark, and an angry sky, And the storm-wraith shrieking fierce and high, And, aye and anon, from the murky cloud, The thunder echoing hoarse and loud ! Oh! little ship, that at dawn of day Didst gaily sail from thy native bay,...

Category: Poetry

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 104

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 136

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Category: Articles