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Kate

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

At 11.1 a.m. on 3rd August, 1966, a yacht was reported to be making little headway in very heavy seas in Rye bay.

The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 11.17, three hours after low water, in astrong south westerly gale...

Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...

Category: Articles

Emerald

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...

Fine Gael

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JULY 10TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

At midnight on the 9th July one of the life-boatmen reported to the coxswain that the small boat Fine Gael had notreturned. She had been taken out at about seven in the evening by three...

A New Medal for Gallantry

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...

Category: Medals

Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...

Marie

Date: August 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 157

BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.

wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and...

Chanticleer

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

GORLESTON.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th May and proceeded to the assistance of the steam trawler Chanticleer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the South Scroby Sand, on which a rough sea was...

Southend Life-Boat With the Blotto In Tow

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

(see page 137). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The New Barrow-In-Furness Life-Boat Herbert Leigh

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

(See page 457). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs