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Saga Surf

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...

Commander O'B. Twohig

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

COMMANDER A. J. O'B. TWOHIG, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A., whose death was reported in the September edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, was also chairman of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I..

Category: Obituaries

Front Cover

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF

Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: February 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 195

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th January, and was presided over by Mr. CHABLIS G. TURNER, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Revenue. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported a further...

Category: Meetings

A Magnificent Group of Services. 19th-21st November, 1916

Date: February 1917

Volume: 23

Issue: 262

SELDOM, if ever, has there been con- centrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achieve- ments than those which are briefly described below. They were charac- terised throughout by heroic effort in the face of...

Category: Services

Difficult Cliff Operation

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.

Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...

Category: Services

Wild Rose, of Brixham

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

The Cromer life-boat put out to the assistance of the dismasted brig Wild Hose, of Brixham, and at the request of the master stayed by her for several hours, when two steam-tugs arrived to tow the vessel into Yarmouth Harbour.

Wave, of Boston

Date: October 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 74

On the 28th March, the same valuable life-boat put off and saved the schooner Wave, of Boston, and her crew of 4 men.

The vessel had stranded on the south part of the Inner Barber Sand, during a strong N.N.E....

Lizzie

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The...

Start, of Brixham

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

On the 4th Jan- uary, 1869, the trawler Start, of Brixham, was observed trying to beat to windward to obtain the shelter of Babbicombe Bay, a gale blowing at the time from the S.W., with a considerable sea. Just then she lost her mast in a...