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14 Men Rescued from Greek Motor Vessel

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

AT 2.40 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Portrush, Co. Antrim, life-boat station, Mr. W. R.

Knox, that the Greek motor vessel Argo Delos of Piraeus, a ship...

Category: Services

Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats

Date: September 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 299

Southend-on-Sea, Essex and The Humber, Yorkshire.

LIEUTENANT H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, E.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the Motor Life-boat which was sent last autumn to Southend-on-Sea, on 8th July last, the name given to the boat...

Category: Inaugurations

None

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Stronsay, Orkneys - At 10.20 p.m.

on 6th September, 1966, news was received that a patient on the Isle of Sanday needed medical attention. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a gale...

London Life-Boat Flag Day

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

As we go to press we are enabled to state that Life-boat Flag Day held throughout London on the 19th May was a great success, in spite of the fact that, unfortunately, the Y.M.C.A. had held their Hut Day on the 16th.

It is...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Arthur

Date: February 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 175

DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the morning of the 27th May information was received that a vessel in the vicinity of Haile Sand was firing signals of distress.

The crew of the Life-boat Richard were summoned, and at 4.30 the...

A Fishing Coble

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Filey, Yorkshire, On the morning of the 19th September, 1961, the weather deteriorated rapidly and as there was a local fishing coble at sea it was decided to launch the life-boat The Isa andPenryn Milstedio escort her...

Pinnace

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 8 a.m. on 30th September, 1969, it was learnt that the cabin cruiser Pinnace had broken down off the Morecambe bay lightvessel and required assistance.

At 9.7 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was...

(Right) a Fairly Complicated Kit

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

(Right) A fairly complicated kit - a dismantled outboard powerhead shows how the engines are inversion proofed at the Centre.

(Below) Putting a brave face on it. James Magness from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire gets the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (106)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 5TH. - TENBY. PEMBROKESHIRE.

The constant flashing of the SOSsignal was seen, probably from a boat which had been attacked but nothing could be found. At daybreak a large convoy was seen in. the distance and it may...

Salvage of Property By the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution

Date: July 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 69

THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...

Category: Committee