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Date: Spring 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 354

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About three in the morning on the 15th of March, 1950, the Orlock Head coastguard tele- phoned that red flares had been seen to the eastward. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her...

Birda

Date: November 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 210

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—Shortly after noon on Sunday, the 1st March, it was reported that the steam trawler Birda, of Milford, was on the "Doombar" with the sea washing right over her. Rockets were at once fired, and while the crew were...

Seaspray and Whisky

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

Seaspray and Whisky
by Norman Freeman

Review by Sam Barnes

Though I’m a fan of books with a maritime theme I didn’t quite know what to expect from Seaspray and Whisky. It is based on...

Category: Articles

Spes Bona

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — On the 25th January a whole S.E. gale was blowing with a very heavy breaking sea. The small fishing boat Spes Bona was at sea, and there were fears that she would have difficulty in making harbour. The pulling and...

Life-Boat Calendars and Christmas Card

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.

The hanging...

Category: Advertisement

South Coaster

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...

Venus (1)

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

SOUTHEND AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.

Signal guns having been fired by the lightships on the evening of the 10th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert put off from Southend and the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched...

Great Rail Journeys

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

Jungfrau Express BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on this sensational 10-day holiday to the beautiful Bernese Obertand in Switzerland. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies...

Category: Advertisement

Back from Her First Service

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

The new Flamborough motor life-boat. (See page 415.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Holba

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...