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Esperanza

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

Ramsgate, Kent.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1948, a fresh north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 10.30 the sailing yacht Esperanza, with a crew of two, went to sea. The weather got worse, and as the yacht attempted...

A Small Boat

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.— At 11.10 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1948, a message came from The Mumbles, through Burnham Radio, that a small boat, with two men on board, was drifting in distress toward the Mixen Shoal, off Mumbles...

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Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

NURSE ON BOARD At noon on 3ist March, 1964, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient required urgent medical attention on the mainland. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it was low water. The...

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Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of 3rd of December, 1958, the honorary secretary received a request from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to take an expectant mother from Inishere Island to the mainland.

Coasteering calamity

Date: Autumn 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 605 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2013

19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...

Category: Articles

Volunteer spirit

Date: Spring 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 603 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2013

Bradford isn’t necessarily the first place that springs to mind when you think about RNLI fundraising volunteers but this land-locked community has been helping to save lives at sea for over 150 years.

RNLI Bradford and...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Conferences

Date: October 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 307

South Eastern District.

CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.

Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...

Category: Meetings

Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats

Date: November 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 288

Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.

DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...

Category: Inaugurations

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Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone Beach was...

List of the Services of the Lift-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 188

Date: May 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 124

List of the Services of the Lift-boats of the Royal National Life boat Institution during the year 1881.

Lives Saved Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 5 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran, schooner, of Lanrvig...

Category: Services