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Ross Tern

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

Trawler Snatch WHIN the Longhope, Orkney, lifeboat station was informed at 11.54 p.m. on February 9 that the trawler Ross Tern was ashore on Troma Island and was breaking up, the lifeboat crew mustered in good time.

As the...

Flora

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

At 11 A.M. on the 7th August, daring a fresh wind from the N., signals of distress were shown from a vessel on the Hasborough Sands, in reply to which the 'same Life-beat was promptly launched, and found that the vessel was tie...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Runswick, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 18th February six Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing grounds. The' weather was then fine, but there was a strong swell running. The southerly wind rose from a strong breeze to...

Legacy Lifeline

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

ifeline Legacies are a vital element of the RNLI's funding, particularly for long-term capital expenditure. With signs of a decline in this source of income we examine the ways in which a legacy can indeed offer a lifeline to casualties...

Category: Donations

Tranquillity

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—In the early hours of the 30th of .May. 1956, the life-boat station was told that the motor fishing vessel Tranquillity of Fleetwood was overdue from trials of a newly installed engine. At 8.5 the life-boat Edmund and...

October (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.

Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...

Category: Services

A Tiger Moth Aircraft

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.37 on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed into the sea two miles south of the look-out. At 2.45 the life-boat...

DOLPHIN IN PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

The IRB at Hartlepoool, Co. Durham, had an unusual service on 21st June, 1970, which it turned into 'a public relations exercise owing to the beach being packed with visitors and a rather smelling dead dolphin causing some headaches to...

Category: Articles

The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Inshore Rescue Boat

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Inshore Rescue Boat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lt David Stogdon and Captain Tony Wicksteed on Board An Earlv Model

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Lt David Stogdon and Captain Tonv Wicksteed On Board An Earlv Model. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs