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MacMillan

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

ALDEBURGH.— A message by telephone was received from the Ship wash Lightvessel,Lightvessel, on the evening of the 12th April, reporting that a vessel was stranded on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W.

breeze was blowing,...

Jenny III

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

The following account of a service by the Newhaven, Sussex, life-boat on the 27th of September, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the December 1959 number of the Life- boat.

At 12.5 in the afternoon, the coast-...

Yacht Themis

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

About 7.30 P.M. on Sunday evening the 20th May, the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Kentwell was summoned from Divine Service to a vessel in distress at the back of the Gorton Sands. With all haste the crew were assembled, and the Life-boat...

Working Away...

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...

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Ocean Starlight

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

At 5.30 a.m. on 5th February, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel, while leaving Stornoway harbour, had stopped rather suddenly and drifted out of sight under the land inside Helm Head.No distress signals, however, had been seen or...

Old Goody and Zephyr

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

GORLESTON.—On the 8th November, the Life-boat Leicester went to the assistance of the brigantine Old Goody, of Faversham, which had been in collision in the roads. Some of the Life-boat men went on board, and with the help of a steamtug the...

Slor

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

AUGUST 13TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress a mile east of Marina look-out. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor...

Paul Rykens

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Aberdeen.—At 9.27 P.M. on the 15th April the Gregness coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off Berryhill. A later message said that she was about a mile N.E. of the Bridge of Don, apparently aground, and was firing rockets. A...

A Yacht and a Motor Boat

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Life-Boat Regulations

Date: June 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 04

THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...