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Valri

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.57 a.m. on 23rd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares at Whittaker Beacon. The life-boat Isabella and Edward Irvin was launched at 6.22 in a strong westerly wind...

Vanadis

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...

Quite a Show

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

Quite a Show The Isle of Man Lions Club recently presented Peel Lifeboat station with a showcase for use outside the boathouse.

For operational reasons the RNLI gift shop is situated in a difficult position at the back of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Shoreline

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat funded by our Shoreline members which was stationed at Blyth from 1979 until last year, has now been transferred to Arbroath, on the east coast of Scotland; she was placed on service at...

Category: Articles

Wicklow

Date: February 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 264

ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat immediately proceeded to the...

Category: Articles

S.S. Yacht Vixen

Date: November 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 146

PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 11.30A.M. on the 20th January, the George Moore Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. yacht Vixen, of Beaumaris, which was found to be abandoned.

With much difficulty, owing...

Oban

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

While a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy rain at intervals, on the 27th October, the Coxswain of the Lifeboat and Officer of Coastguard on the look-out observed a light from a vesselstranded on the...

Suzette

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JULY 11TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...

Valldemosa

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.

Port Erin was asked...

An Intrepid Rescue In Guernsey

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).

Turkey There were no services to British vessels.

There are 4 life...

Category: Articles