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Ivo Luc

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Wick, Caithness-shire.—On the 10th February, 1938, the Belgian motor fishing vessel Ivo Luc, of Zeebrugge, had a breakdown of her engine while fishing off Clythness. She carried a crew of four. A fresh N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...

Prudence

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...

Melinda Muriel

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...

Four Bronze Medals for Shore-Boat Services

Date: November 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 288

Newhaven (Sussex), South Shields (Northumberland).

THE Institution has awarded Bronze Medals for gallantry in saving life to four men, all four of whom ran great risk of losing their lives.

On the...

Category: Medals

Dun Laoghaire Life-Boat Stands By Collier

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

(see page 239). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Sick Man Landed By Cromer Life-Boat

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

(See page 516). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Friendly Rivalry: Kim Robertson (Right) Challenged Mick Hewitt

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Falcon

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The shrimpboat Falcon, while homeward bound in a strong N.E. breeze on the 9th March, stranded on the outer bank to the south of the harbour. On information reaching Gorleston, the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was promptly...

April (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the...

Category: Services

None (1)

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.

Unable to...