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Rescue from French Yacht

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...

Category: Services

Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby

Date: March 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 278

The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...

Category: Obituaries

Maren

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

WEYMOUTH.—On the morning of the 1st November several vessels were reported to be driving out of Portland Boads towards the shore, and the crew of the Agnes Harriet Life-boat were summoned, and remained in readiness in case their services...

Gleneden (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.

At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...

Waterballasting for Inshore Lifeboats

Date: Spring 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 460

ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of inflatable and semi-rigid boats which makes them particularly suitable for rescue work at sea is their inherent stability; and the lower in the water they are, with their wetted beam increased, the greater their...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Regulations

Date: May 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 116

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...

Category: Articles

D. L. Harper

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.

None (3)

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...

Humber:

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Humber: The 100-year-old, 86ft gaff-rigged ketch, William McCann, had run aground at Donna Nook on the night of Saturday November 17, 1984. Her II passengers were lifted off during the night by helicopter while Humber's 54ft Arun class... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

H.M.S. Tug Leigh

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

DECEMBER 10TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.10 in the evening the naval control informed the life-boat coxswain that H.M.S. tug Leigh was sending out an SOS signal. The night was very dark and cold, with a south-east gale blowing and a...