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Petan

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Lyn- well lightvessel had reported that a cabin cruiser had burnt a red flare a hundred yards from the lightvessel.

Notus and Sunshine

Date: November 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 206

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—-A telephone message was received from the coastguard about 1.30 P.M. on the 18th April stating that a vessel was ashore half-a-mile south of the watch-house. In the absence of the Coxswain, the Assistant Coxswain...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: November 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 182

SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K..8.

VICE PATRONESS-THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.Q.

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Category: Advertisement

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...

Paragon

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

NEAR LIGHTVESSEL Cloughey, Co. Down. At 2.25 p.m.

on loth December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Paragon was drifting near South Rock lightvessel with her engines broken down. The...

Oberon

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

THIRD MAN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized off Coopers Beach, East Mersea, and that two...

Brucklay Castle

Date: February 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 155

GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—During a strong E. wind and a heavy swell on the morning of the 19th October, the barque Brucklay Castle, of Aberdeen, was observed to be in a very dangerous position in Crawfordsburn Bay. The Life-boat George Pooley...

Cover Picture

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

In this issue there are reports of four inshore lifeboat services to people cut off by the tide or trapped in cliffs or caves; it is a type of service for which ILBs are admirably suited but which may have to be carried out in hazardous... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Longhope Naming

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

The naming ceremony for the new Longhope, Orkney, life-boat took place on 27th May, beside Longhope pier. The new life-boat is the David and Elizabeth King and E.B.—a 48-foot 6-inch Solent—and has been paid for by legacies left by Miss...

Category: Inaugurations

Sandi’s shores

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

One of the first questions to spring to mind meeting comedian, TV and radio presenter, actor, adventurer, author, playwright and journalist Sandi Toksvig is whether there’s anything she’s not good at. ‘Oh, I’m rubbish at so many things –...

Category: Articles