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Ocean Starlight

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

At 5.30 a.m. on 5th February, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel, while leaving Stornoway harbour, had stopped rather suddenly and drifted out of sight under the land inside Helm Head.No distress signals, however, had been seen or...

Philante

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 7.43 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, information was received that the motor yacht Philante, some five miles off St.

Anthony lighthouse, was taking water in her engine room. The life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...

Almeco (1)

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

Barge aground THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY Of Mablethorpe lifeboat station was informed by Humber Coastguard at 1030 on Tuesday October 12, 1982, that the barge Almeco had grounded overnight.

An attempt was to be made to...

Silver Quest

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...

Edgar Foster

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

Edgar Foster, last surviving crew member of the Yealm lifeboat. The station closed in 1927..

Category: Obituaries

Below: Porthdinllaen's

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Below: Porthdinllaen's boathouse, showing the wire netting that protects the station from stray golf balls.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Tyne

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

The Tyne was the first 'fast' slipway lifeboat and was introduced in 1982.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Above: Margate's Inshore Lifeboat Tigger Too.

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Above: Margate's inshore lifeboat Tigger Too. gets alongside the tug during the exercise.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Below: Brighton Crew In Their Atlantic 75 Thelma Glossop

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Below: Brighton crew in their Atlantic 75 Thelma Glossop and local firemen come to the aid of the pleasure craft Ocean Spirit. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hair-Raising Funds!

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Gary Whiting from Mirfield in West Yorkshire, turned heads earlier this year with a hair-brained scheme to raise money for charity - he had half of his beard and moustache shaved off! Gary, went about his daily routine for ten days before... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs