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Young Bert

Date: August 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 229

At 7.30 on the morning of the 6th January a vessel was observed on the West Barnard Sand with a signal of distress flying.

Information was given to the Coxswain and the No. 1 Life-boat Bolton was smartly launched. On...

Review

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.

12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...

Category: Articles

Pacific

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...

Woodlock

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

During a whole W. by S. gale on the night of the 28th-29th December the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to the assistance of a vessel which was in difficulties near the Middle Shoebury Buoy. The Life-boat found the tug Woodcock,...

Football

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

THE annual match for the Baring Cup was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 20th January, on the ground once again kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co., Ltd., of Charlton, Kent. The result was a win...

Category: Articles

A Cripple's Help.

Date: March 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 11

The Dunbar and Skateraw branch has received £4:11:3 from a paralysed woman. It was got by the sale of work which she crocheted herself, though she can -only use her left hand,.

Category: Articles

Centaurus

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard reported that the Liberian steamer Centaurus had been in collision with an unknown tanker some eighteen miles east-by-south from Ramsgate. The life-boat...

Launches

Date: Summer 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 581

LAUnCHeS 2,210 LIFeBoAt AnD HoVeRcRAFt LAUncHes APRIL–jUne 2007 12-32 JOY AND CHARLES BEEBY 14-17 ELIZABETH AND RONALD 17-26 HENRY ALSTON HEWAT on-####(12-##) Mersey class last built: 1993 refit cost: £190,000 on-####(14-##) trent class...

Category: Services

A Sailboard

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...

A French Trawler

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Margate, Kent. At 10.10 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, red jlares were seen one mile east of the north-east Spit buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. //) launched at 10.34 in a strong gale from the west with a very rough sea....