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A Sailing Dinghy (1)

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.44 on the morning of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that the Brighton police had reported that a girl from a capsized sailing dinghy had been found coming ashore at...

Gamecock

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Barrow, Lancashire - At 3 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, it was learnt that the converted life-boat Gamecock was overdue.

The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 3.25 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...

Islander

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At ii.10 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had capsized one mile off Tregantle Fort. The IRB was launched at 11.22 and also the harbour master's launch. However, conditions outside the harbour forced the IRB...

Admiral Sir William Slayter, K.G.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

The death is reported of Admiral Sir William Slayter, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.S.G., who was a member of the Committee of Management for 18 years and a vice president of the R.N.L.I, since 1962..

Category: Obituaries

Robin Rumson

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Robin Rumson llfracombe crew member, on 14 July, from a tragic road traffic accident, aged just 38..

Category: Obituaries

Maggie

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

The Life-boat was called out by distress signals at about 10 P.M. on the 25th April, a vessel being in distress in Swanage Bay. The crew were promptly assembled and the boat launched. The vessel proved to be the barge Maggie, of London,...

Boathouses in fact and fiction:

Date: Spring 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 591

Daphne du Maurier
• Her father bought a boathouse at Bodinnick, Cornwall, to convert intoa holiday cottage.
• She wrote sections of Frenchman’s Creek in a Coastguard hut above Lantic Bay.<...

Category: Articles

Anchor man

Date: Spring 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 587

There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...

Category: Articles

Ballasting Boats

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...

Category: Articles

A Fishing Boat (5)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

OCTOBER 31ST. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. While a small fishing boat was returning from the fishing grounds her engine broke down, and the motor life-boat K.T.J.S.

was launched at 2.30 PM. to help her. A northerly wind was...