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The Dutch Training Ship Eendraht

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Dutch Training Ship aground near Newhaven Newhaven's Arun was called out in a south-westerly gale on 21 October when the Dutch Training Ship Eendraht went aground off Newhaven as she was leaving the harbour.

The...

The Steamer Ypapanti Aground on a Bank Near the Sunk Lightvessel on 17th November 1966

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

The steamer Ypapanti aground on a bank near the Sunk lightvessel on 17th November 1966. Coxswain Frank Bloom, of the Walton life-boat, was awarded a bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of 11 men from her.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Off on Passage - to Oslo!

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

The International Lifeboat Federation's 16th conference, held every four years in a different member country, was held in Oslo during the week commencing 3 June 1991, hosted by the Norwegian lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part I: Preparations

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...

Category: Articles

Five Pile Drivers

Date: November 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 258

At 1.30 A.M.

on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...

Boy's Own, Speedwell and Cluaran

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About noon on the 8th of November, 1948, several of the fishing boats returned to harbour. The north- westerly breeze was light, but there was a very heavy swell at the harbour entrance, and they had...

Maurita, of Lancaster

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 10.35 P.M.

on the llth December, 1937, the proprietor of an hotel on the south shore reported to the coxswain that a vessel off the shore, about a mile south of the south pier, was sending up...

Signs of life

Date: Autumn 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 605 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2013

2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...

Category: Articles

The Motor Fishing Boats Provider, Galilee and Pilot Me

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...

Index to the Branches

Date: May 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 236

ABERDEEN. . . 223 ABERDOVEI . . 202 ABBRSOCH . . . 173 ABERYSTWTTH . 171 AOKEBGttL . . 227 ALDEBUBGH . . 211 ALLOA . . . . 227 ALHMOUTH . . 205 ANGLE . . . . 208 ANGLESEY . . . 170 ANSTRUTHEB . . 229 APPLBDORI . .179 ARANMORE . . 239...

Category: Branches