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Three Good Life-Boat Services

Date: August 1917

Volume: 23

Issue: 263

Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. . gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth Life-boat | Anne Frances...

Category: Services

Your Letters

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

Still at work I read with interest the account of the rescue off Moelfre on 26 August (THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1993 issue).

The MFV you referred to, which took in tow the second casualty, was Manx Voyager - the ex-Watson class...

Category: Correspondence

Cruise Away With the Winter Lottery!

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Fred Oisen Cruise Lines have donated a fantastic first prize for the Winter Lifeboat Lottery - a two-week luxury Caribbean Cruise for two, plus £500 spending money.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Argo

Date: August 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 129

BALLYCOTTON,CO. CORK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Ballycotton, making for Cork harbour, closehauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On the...

Naming Ceremonies: Eastbourne and Islay

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Naming Ceremonies EASTBOURNE, JULY 3 and ISLAY, JULY 28 Eastbourne IT SEEMED AS IF the whole population of Eastbourne, together with its holiday makers, had assembled round the lifeboat museum on the afternoon of Tuesday July 3. The occasion...

Category: Inaugurations

Catharine

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

The Hoylake Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 25th September on the occasion of the flat Catharine, of Liver-pool, going ashore about a mile from the Life-boat Station daring a whole gale from the north and a very heavy...

Bacchus

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

MEVASISSBT, OOBHWAM,.—On the 1st September the smaek Bacchus, of Nantes, which had been towed from Buthleven to Charlestown in ballast, and had anchored in Oharlestown Bay, was in great danger owing to the heavy gale which had sprung up from...

Faith Ann

Date: Autumn 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 562

Disabled and drifting with a fouled propeller, the fishing boat Faith Ann was in trouble in storm force winds, 50 miles off Orkney. Soon after midday on 26 April the Shetland Coastguard requested the launch of the Stromness lifeboat on a...

Saluto

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...

(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

(Below) Coxswain Dermot Walsh of Valentia was awarded the silver medal for the rescue of ten men from the motor vessel Oranmore in 1970.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs