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Book Reviews

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).

The great rescues from...

Category: Articles

Van Brakel

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.50 in the morning, on the 26th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was aground on the north side of the entrance to Boulmer Haven.

She was sounding her siren. At 5.15 the...

Jennie Lind

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the night of the 15th December the brigantine Jennie Lind, of Whitehaven, coal laden, was driven on the Pladdie Rocks off Ballywalter.

A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and...

Mablethorpe: After Putting Ashore Two Injured Men from the Grounded Barge Almeco

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

Mablethorpe: After putting ashore two injured men from the grounded barge Almeco, Helmsman William Tuplin (I) and Crew Member Wayne Docking prepare to relaunch the D class inflatable lifeboat to return to the casualty. The third lifeboatman,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Launches

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

LAuncHes laUNCheS 3,112 LiFeBoAt AnD HovercrAFt LAuncHes JuLY–septeMBer 2007 ABERDEEN on-1248(17-24):Jul16, Aug15 D-536:Jul2,12,16,30,31, Sep4,23 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jul15,Aug4,5,12, 22(x2),24,26(x4),29 ABERSOCH B-790:Jul6,23,24,25,27,29,...

Category: Services

Mariner

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Kirkcudbright.—Early in the morning of the 31st July the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported that a small yacht, anchored in Whithorn bay, was in a dangerous position, owing to a change in the direction of the wind. A moderate S.W. gale was...

Sartorious

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

Injured man A YACHT AGROUND in Worbarrow Bay was reported to the deputy launching authority of Weymouth lifeboat station at 0006 on Sunday September 24, 1978, and at 0030 the 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, with Coxswain Alfred Pavey in...

International Assistance from Westcountry Lifeboat

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.

The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an injured man off a120ft Spanish trawler in the sheltered... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Crackshot

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 1st January a vessel was seen to be in distress. She was the cargo steamer Crackshot, of Newcastle, bound with a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one from the Tyne to London. She had stranded on a...

Betsy

Date: August 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 141

PALLING, NORFOLK.—The ketch Betsy, of and for Newcastle, from London, with iron, stranded at Palling, during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea, on the 1st of March. The No. 1 Life-boat, Good Hope, was promptly launched; but the water was...