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Naming Ceremony at St. Ives

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...

Category: Inaugurations

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 206

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...

Category: Articles

A Small Boat (1)

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.

A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...

Emile Francqui

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...

An Aeroplane

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

AEROPLANE CRASHED Lerwick, Shetlands—At 12.9 in the morning of January 3rd, 1947, an aero- plane could be heard flying round the town, and it dropped red flares. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, causing a rough sea, and as it appeared...

Jane Isabella

Date: November 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 158

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched on the 30th of June to the assistance of the coble Jane Isabella, which had gone to the fishing ground with four other boats and had been overtaken by a gale from the E...

Lifeboats In Action

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

THE LIFEBOAT Mersey Class lifeboat ON 1183 Lil Cunningham Built: 1W2 Cost: C650.000 Funding: A generous gift Irom Miit Salty Cunningham of Derby in memory of her sister D class lifeboat D-485 Stafford with Rugtlty Built: 1995 Cost. ni.OOO...

Category: Services

Amelia Lauro

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.

a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.

of the...

Adventure and a Coble

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...

Bravest Act of Life-Saving

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

THK Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1962 has been won by Bowman John Kerr, of Blyth, for his part in the rescue of the crew of two of the motor vessel Paullgate on the 18th November. A...

Category: Awards