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Sticky situation

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.

The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...

Category: Articles

None (3)

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the...

St Fergus

Date: February 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 83

The Life-boat Cotton Sheppard, stationed here, was also launched the same day to the aid of the schooner St. Fergus, of Aberystwith, which had shown signals of distress on account of her being in very shallow water and in danger of striking...

None (3)

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...

None (9)

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Galway's Arun uses inflatable to snatch skin divers to safety from surfCoxswain Padraig Dillane and Crew Members Seamus Flaherty and Mairtin Fitzpatrick of the Galway Bay lifeboat have been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National...

A Dinghy

Date: Winter 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 475

Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...

Maldon Little Ship Club's

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Maldon Little Ship Club's sponsored row, an annual event, raised£1,681 for the Institution when it was held in January, 1985. Competitors braved sub-zero temperatures, ice floes and snow in order to complete the five-mile course on... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mr Mclachlan

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

G.L. Watson and Company were commissioned by the Institution to prepare the design of the Arun class lifeboat and the lines were the work of Mr J. Allen McLachlan of that firm. The tank tests of the model produced from these lines indicated... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Cobles (1)

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

About 10 A.M. on the 21st February, the wind rose very suddenly bringing up a heavy sea. As there were thirteen of the fishing cobles out at the fishing ground, the fishermen on shore requested that the Life-boat might be launched, as they...

Fleetwood's Annual Lifeboat Weekend

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

Fleetwood's annual lifeboat weekend was packed with many successful events which together brought in £4,000. The Mayor of Wyre (above). Councillor Maurice Davies, is seen here starting a sponsored 66-mile relav run to Morecambe... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs