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Fame

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

Margate, Kent - At 8.33 a.m. on 27th April, 1969, the coastguard stated that a report had been received from the m.v. Australia Star that a yacht was flying distress signals near the Mid Shingles buoy. The life-boat crew were requested to...

The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875

Date: November 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 98

UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...

Category: Articles

An Eggs-Tra Special Gift

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

The £20,000 Faberge-style egg has finally found a home with the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in London. It is especially appropriate as the egg contains a model of the City of London.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Douglas May Have Changed

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Douglas may have changed since Sir William Hillary's time, but it is still home to an RNLI lifeboat and the cradle of the Institution.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Fishing Boat (3)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JULY 29TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat returning from a pleasure trip had trouble with her engine, but she was able to repair it. - Rewards, £3 10s..

An Aeroplane (71)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

SEPTEMBER 10TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. It was reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea and that a man had been heard shouting, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 2s. 6d..

A Whitley Aeroplane (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

DECEMBER 24TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. A Whitley aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but four men from it were rescued by a patrol trawler. The others were not found. - Rewards, £9 10s..

None (107)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 12TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. Explosions were heard and aeroplanes seen off the harbour. It was thought that a vessel had been attacked by German aeroplanes, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £9 9s..

Andromeda

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

The schooner Andromeda, of Riga, bound from London to Bo'ness, with a cargo of scrap iron, stranded in the vicinity of Thorntonloch, on the 6th January. The Life-boat, Sarah Kay and the rocket apparatus were quickly on the scene of the...

The Record of the War

Date: June 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 20

In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....

Category: Articles