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Scarborough

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mark Lisa

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking...

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Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so...

Update on the Fast Carriage Lifeboat

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Since the report in the winter 1985/6 issue of THE LIFEBOAT on the building of an experimental prototype of a fast carriage launched boat, extensive trials have been taking place. She is photographed (right) undergoing speed tests off...

Category: Articles

The Gardens of the Former Home of Lady Astor of Hever

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Tlie gardens of the former home of Lady Astor of Hever were opened to the public for the first time since 1961 in April to raise funds for Cemaes Bay branch. Cestyll Ornamental Gardens at Cemlyn, Anglesey, are now owned by the Central... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

R-Eel-Y Good Deed

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

The crew of Cullercoats inshore lifeboat went to the aid of an unusual casualty in March - a 7ft conger eel! The 70lb fish, named Queenie, was given a flying start on her journey to the spawning grounds of the Azores, when her keepers at... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Rowsley

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

AUGUST 3RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a trawler under the cliffs at Skirza Head sounding an S.O.S. There was thick fog and a gentle S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight sea. The motor...

The Edam, of Rotterdam

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

NOVEMBER 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning the local fishing fleet had put to sea in moderate weather, but by noon an east-north-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Four motor fishing vessels were seen to...

A Fitting Epilogue.

Date: March 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 3

The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German...

Category: Articles