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Vellums Accorded to Three Scotsmen

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...

Category: Articles

Regalia (1)

Date: August 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 229

The Life- boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 25th February to the assistance of three fishing-boats belonging to Douglas, which were caught by a whole N.W. to N.N.W. gale, which suddenly sprang up. Fortunately the...

Mac Duff

Date: August 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 121

PENZANCE.—On the 14th February the Richard Lewis Life-boat put off to the assistance of the ship Mac Duff, of Glasgow, which was riding at anchor in a dangerous position off Lamorua during a strong SS.W. wind and a heavy...

Hastings - D Class Cecile Rampton

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

The handing over ceremony of the new D class lifeboat at Hastings took place at the station on 29 November 1989.

Mr Joe Adams, chairman of the Hastings station branch, welcomed the guests at the ceremony, and the lifeboat,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Storms and Wild Water

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Storms and Wild Water

By Dag Pike
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

This well-illustrated book brings storms at
sea to life.

Have you ever wondered how storms...

Category: Articles

Closer Ties!

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Closer Ties!. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hoppet

Date: November 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 150

ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...

Deux Amis

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.

She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.

There was...

News

Date: Autumn 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 566

Three Alderney lifeboat volunteers received top honours at the Daily Express Vodafone Life Savers Awards in October for their rescue of three people swept out to seaLifeboat Operations Manager David McAllister and Lifeboatmen Phil Murray and...

Category: Articles

A Life-Boat Sculptor

Date: June 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 279

THE following announcement appeared in the Morning Post on 9th May :— " Mr. Frederick Thomas Callcott, the sculptor, died recently in a nursing home at Hastings. Born at Newcastle Street, Strand, in 1854, he was educated at St. Clement...

Category: Obituaries