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A Remarkable Life-Boat Launch

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...

Category: Articles

Naming Ceremonies: Scotland. St. Abbs, Fraserburgh, Eyemouth and Portpatrick

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

FOUR new motor life-boats, two of them gifts from Scotland, were named on the Scottish coast this year, at St. Abbs, Berwickshire ; Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; Eyemouth, Berwick- shire ; and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.

St....

Category: Inaugurations

Enfant de Bretagne

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: October 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 70

MILLION, CORNWALL.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Mullion Cove, several wrecks, with loss of life, haying recently occurred in the locality.

The boat is 33 feet long, and rows 10 oars double-banked...

Category: Articles

Terrible Life-Boat Disaster at Kingstown

Date: February 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 179

and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...

Category: Articles

A Vessel

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEVEN LIFE-BOATMEN LOST AT ST. IVES JAN. 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Three minutes before two in the morning, the honorary secretary was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a...

Contents

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Contents RNLI News. 183 Volume XLIX Number 492 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLI.

Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services.

Annual General Meeting and presentation of awards...

Category: Contents

Loch Wasdale

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...

False Alarms

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

Dummies from Aeroplanes: New Regulations.

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat two false alarms were recorded. In each case a parachute, with a dummy attached, had been dropped into the sea by an aeroplane, and the dummy was...

Category: Articles

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Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Bully for Kirkwall! Kirkwall Scotland North Division RNLI lorry driver George Dadson became part of an unusual lifeboat crew at Kirkwall in the middle of October.

George had arrived at the station with his 17-ton truck to...