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Snow Wych

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Yacht on bar THE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD On Watch at Penrhyn on Tuesday April 17 saw, at 1155, a small yacht under outboard engine with her mainsail up making for the River Teifi. It was a fine day with a clear sky and the sea in the bay was...

Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

Born on February 6, 1876, Henry Blogg served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world wars. He was awarded three gold medals for gallantry and four silver Five Cromer lifeboatmen who were in the crew...

Category: Articles

Hi-Hope and Tyn-Tuc

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

TROUBLE ON THE BAR THE ability to be able to anticipate a dangerous situation is useful at sea and this was demonstrated at Cardigan on 13th August, 1972, when the local ILB was called out before she was actually needed.

At...

Inflatable Toys and Dinghies

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

Rye Harbour's C Class inflatable lifeboat was called out by Dover Coastguard at 1115 on Sunday 9 July to what would prove to be probably its busiest day since the station opened.

Hot weather had drawn huge crowds to...

Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Boats

Date: January 1860

Volume: 04

Issue: 35

FOWEY, CORNWALL.—A life-boat has been recently stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Polkerris, near Fowey, the cost of the same and of a substantial boat-house being defrayed chiefly by WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, Esq., J. F. DULLER,...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 39

BANFF, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Banff, .on the north-east coast of Scotland, in connec- tion with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT' INSTITUTION.

A self-righting boat on' the...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Services In March, April and May. 90 Lives Rescued

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

DURING March life-boats went out on service 52 times and rescued 48 lives.

TO THE HELP OF BARGES IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported...

Category: Services

The Voluntary Spirit

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...

Category: Articles

Cut Off By the Tide. Two Bronze Medals for Clovelly Life-Boatmen

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...

Category: Services

Bridlington Bowman Killed on Service

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

AT 5.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard at Brid- lington telephoned the life-boat station that two girl bathers were being washed seawards in Thornwick Bay, and at 5.35 the life-boat Tillie Morri- son, Sheffield...

Category: Services