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A Car

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...

Bon Accord

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...

Lifeboat Launches on Service

Date: Summer 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 449

Lifeboat launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire April 13.

Aldeburgb, Suffolk March 11.

Angle, Dyfed March 15, 28, April 13 (2) and...

Category: Services

George and Margaret

Date: November 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 150

NEWBIGGIN. — During a gale of wind from the S.E., and a heavy sea, on the 29th May, the coble George and Margaret, of Newbiggin, while making for the shore was struck by a high sea, and at once foundered, about half a mile E. of Church Point...

Lady Olwen Carey Evans

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

Lady Olwen Carey Evans, DBE, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president and chairman of South Caernarvonshire ladies' guild, surrounded by her family on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday; the card she is holding is... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Clachnacuddin

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

On the 19th April, at 10 15 A.M., the barquentine Clachnacuddin, 'ofGuernsey, coal laden from Shields for Jersey, was observed in the fog, apparently stranded on the Scroby Sand. The fog liftiog a little, signals were fired by the Cockle...

Modern Lifeboat Equipment

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

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Chairman—SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK...

Category: Advertisement

Oceanic II (1)

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...

An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...