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Monte Gurugu (1)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.

—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...

Life-Boatman and Coastguard In Support

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

The new coat oi arms of Ramsgate, where the life-boat station has rescued 1,365 lives'since 1865. - View image in PDF

(Reproduced by courtesy of the Borough of Ramsgate.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...

Category: Inaugurations

Here and There

Date: Winter 1977

Volume: 44

Issue: 459

BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...

Category: Articles

MSC Napoli

Date: Winter 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 579

Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue operation of the 26 crew of MSC Napoli on 18 January 2007.

The vessel, 41 miles SE of The Lizard,was taking on water through a hole in... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

American Delegates on Board the Swanage Motor Life-Boat

Date: September 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 295

Back row, left to right: Major E. J. Burt, President of the Swanage Branch, Commander Rasmuss«n, Mr. Maxam and Vice-Admiral Billard. In front of Major Burt is Captain Rowley.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Regulations

Date: June 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 04

THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

Category: Articles

Ben Doran

Date: June 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 302

Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.

Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.

DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.

They were both vessels...

Flylyte

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Margate, Kent.—About seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor yacht ashore on Margate Sands four and a half miles north-west of the lookout, and the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...

Falkland

Date: February 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 203

ST. AGNES', ISLES OF SCILLY.—A large four-masted barque, the Falkland, of Liverpool, laden with wheat from Tacoma, Puget Sound, for Falmouth, in endeavouring to weather the islands in a moderate gale from S.S.W., a heavy sea and thick...