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H.M. Trawler Caulonia

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...

Special Gifts

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...

Category: Donations

Day Dream, of Dundee.

Date: August 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 270

A Fine Service by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat.

A VEKY fine service was performed by the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boat on the llth April, 1919, when she rescued six pilots from the pilot cutter Day Dream, of Dundee....

The S.S. Glendarroch

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...

An Aeroplane (2)

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...

Letter

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Just in case some of your readers might be wondering how I managed to get the 'Pictorial Story of an IRB Service . . .' (THE LIFE-BOAT, September 1969, centre pages), may I assure them that there was nothing rigged about it: my wife...

Category: Correspondence

Good Show

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

The RNLI's presence at the 1998 London International Boat Show once again proved to be a great success. Financial income, including sales items, membership recruitment and donations, was up 13% on last year's total - £10,000 was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

H.M. Trawler Resolvo

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON Dec. 2ND. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.

At 12.14 in the morning a message from the coastguard reached the lifeboat station of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that...

None

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was dangerously ill in one of the forts near the...

H.M.S. Witherington (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...