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A Motor Cruiser and a Yacht

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...

Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by the Cromer...

Category: Advertisement

A Rowing Boat

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Fowey, Cornwall. — 15th June. A man and a woman in a rowing boat had been reported overdue. Their boat capsized, but they had managed to get ashore and sheltered for the night in a cave.—Rewards, £8 155..

Woolly Jumpers

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual 'survivors' in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Unknown Vessel

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

FEBRUARY 22ND. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.

An unknown vessel had been sunk by enemy action. Only wreckage was found by the life-boat, but some survivors were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch- Rewards, £16 9s..

The Whitehills Life-Boat

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...

Garland

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...

Jessie

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

ONE MAN IN A BARGE RESCUED Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.20 in the morn- ing of the 15th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel at anchor three miles south-west from Bill Tower Look-out was flying a distress signal. A moderate...

A faster lifeboat for London

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

The next generation of E class lifeboat can now be seen on the Thames. Hurley Burly is the first of three new E class lifeboats to be shared by Tower and Chiswick Lifeboat Stations. Two more are due to join our fleet in...

Category: Articles

Francois Tixier

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.40 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Francois Tixier, of Dunkirk, bound from Goole for Rouen with a cargo of coal, was flying distress signals four miles north by...