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Orca

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.

1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...

Sunset Over Kent

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

A photograph taken by Mr. L. H. Shelvey, honorary secretary at Walmer, from the life-boat as she was returning from the Goodwin Sands. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Amber Queen

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.

the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew...

A Fishing Boat (3)

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Fowey, Cornwall.—16th November, 1938. A fishing boat had gone ashore at Mevagissey, but the crew were rescued by another boat and from the shore.—Rewards, £13 2*. 6d..

A Motor Boat

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

Buckie, Banffshire. — 19th January, 1939. A motor boat had gone ashore at Lossiemouth, but her crew were able to scramble over the rocks to safety.— Rewards, £10 6s. 3d!..

Blue Rose

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 8.14 p.m.

on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties one and a half miles from the look-out.

The life-boat Susan Ashley...

Lonn

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.2 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sick man on board the tanker Lonn of Bergen needed medical attention immediately.

The...

Varina

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...

Mervyn Mcavoy

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

FEBRUARY 1989: Mervyn McAvoy, honorary secretary at Caister lifeboat station from 1952 until its closure in 1969. He was assistant secretary from 1949 and was awarded a silver badge in 1971..

Category: Obituaries

Wick Lifeboat Assists Us Yacht

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Wick's Tyne class lifeboat Norman Sali'esini launched at 0045 on 1 September to the casualty Fridor, a sailing yacht from Ohio, which was on passage from the Shetland Islands.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs