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Angling Dinghies

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats The dangers facing lifeboat crews were cgraphically illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after...

People and Places

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Winning hunch The winner of the RNLI's 44th national lottery has the Hunchback of Notre Dame to thank for drawing her ticket! Micky O'Donoughue was playing the role in the New Vic Company's comedy version of 'The Hunchback of...

Category: Articles

Arrow

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

HOWTH.—On the 22nd November, the Clara Baker Life-boat put off to the smack Arrow, of Guernsey, which was in a sinking state in the middle of the harbour, and remained by her until she grounded and the water had left her..

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Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Galway Bay. On the evening of the 8th of September, 1960, the island medical officer asked for the help of the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson to take a sick woman from the Middle Island to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other...

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Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

HELICOPTER LOWERS DOCTORS TO LIFE-BOAT The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.3 on the evening of the 16th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two girls were in difficulties in Three Cliffs Bay.

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Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber aeroplane had crashed on the island. A moderate N...

Arethusa

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.—At 5.30 on the morning of 21st August it was reported that a vessel was drifting shorewards before a stiff gale from the W. The coxswain of the Robert William Life-boat lost no time in assembling his crew and taking...

La Mariole

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At 9.45 in the morning of the 30th of October, 1948, a fishing vessel off the pier was seen to burn a flare, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched. She found the local motor...

A Mock Viking Longship

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Garland

Date: February 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 139

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—Signal rockets having been fired by the Swin-Middle and Maplin Lightships on the 1st November, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 4 A.M., during a very strong N.B. wind and a rough sea. The Boat made her way across...