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Rosmeur

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

Appledore, Devon.—On the morning of the 23rd February the coastguard at Westward Ho reported that a vessel was anchored in a dangerous position close to Bar Buoy. A fresh N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...

Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...

H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.

During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...

Reliance

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

NEWPORT (PEMBROKESHIRE).—In reply to signals of distress, the Lifeboat Clevedon was launched at 3 A.M. on the 8th October while the wind was blowing a strong gale from "W. by N. to W.N.W.

It was found that the signal...

The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...

Category: Articles

Day's

Date: August 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 161

HARWICH.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Lifeboat in tow, went out on the morning of the 6th January, in a fresh gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cork...

On Tow, the Yacht Wing

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

On tow, the yacht Wing. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

RNLI Lifeboats on the Thames

Date: Autumn 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 566

RNLI Lifeboats On The Thames. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Feature the Royal Charter Tragedy

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...

Category: Articles

Frederick Carel

Date: February 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 139

RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.

At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...