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Amulet

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Salcombe, Devon.—At 8.45 in the evening on the 3rd of August, 1950, a report from Dartmouth announced a small yacht in difficulties six miles south-south-west of Prawle Point.

There was an injured man aboard! Fifteen...

Tricia

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...

None

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Swanage, Dorset - At 10.20 p.m.

on 10th March, 1968, the coxswain learnt that two people were missing in the Studland to Swanage area. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.30 in a gentle west by north breeze with a...

H.M.S. Wanderer

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At, 12.28 P.M a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S. Wanderer expected to arrive in Yarmouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a...

Arthur Margetts

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

On the 10th April the barge Arthur Margetts, of Rochester, bound for Brightlingsea with a cargo of crude oil, got into difficulties. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The barge dropped anchor, but it dragged, and she went...

Great Rail Journeys

Date: Winter 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 579

GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS ©MDLF-Malburet Rhone Cruise ----8 DAY HOLIDAY BY TRAIN FROM LONDON----- VIKING RIVER CRUISES Exploring the World in Comfort' Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on this wonderful...

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Books

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...

Category: Articles

Above: 'A Life-Boat Rescue

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

Above: 'A Life-boat Rescue with the Help of the Life-Saving Net' by Charles Pears RQI, published in 1924.

Category: Drawings

175 Years from Page 91

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

Some of the lifeboats have taken part in historic events. Plymouth's lifeboat Clemency was present on August 19, 1879, at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...

Category: Articles

Carraig Doun

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...