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Welsh Lady II and Sara Terrapin

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZED At 2.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the lifeboat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a vessel, whose position was one mile offshore from the station, had fired two smoke flares. The vessel Welsh Lady II had a...

In Her Ninety-First Year

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Miss E. L. Davenport, of Rhyl, who has collected in her Welsh costume for twenty-one years. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Flirt

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Margate, Kent.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was overdue. At 1.18 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.

IT) was launched in a heavy sea, with...

Life-Boat Gifts for Christmas

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...

Category: Advertisement

Bookshelf

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

The Mary Stanford Disaster by Geoff Hutchinson published by the author at £2.25 plus 50p post and packing ISBN 095199361 5 First published in 1984 The Mary Stanford Disaster, recounting the events at Rye Harbour in 1928, has been...

Category: Articles

Susan Ashley

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

One of a class of four 41ft lifeboats built for slipway launching.

Watson lifeboats take their class name from their designers, G.L. Watson and Co who were the RNLI's consultant naval architects for many years. Susan... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Cobles

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 26th February the fishing cobles went out line fishing at about 6 A.M., there being then a light N.E. wind. At 10 o'clock the wind shifted to the E. and commenced to blow strongly, accompanied by a very...

G.C.B.

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morn- ing of the 9th of December, 1948, a strong southerly gale was blowing.

At 8.35 a barge was seen to be in diffi- culty three-quarters of a mile west of the pier, and the motor life-boat...

Natasha

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.45 a.m. on 22nd June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the harbour office that the S.S. Tryonia was going to the help of a yacht which seemed to be in distress about three and a half miles west of Grosnez...

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Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...