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Union (1)

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

At 1 P.M. on the 4th December Coxswain Green observed a schooner in distress off Great Yar- mouth, she having parted from her anchors during a strong S.S.W. gale.

The Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched and proceeded to the...

January (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.

A gale was blowing from the...

Category: Services

New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage (1)

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

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Category: Photographs

June (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...

Category: Services

April (1)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...

Category: Services

December (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

RONALDSWAY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the sea near Ronaldsway, about 440 yards off shore. The weather was calm. Captain D. G. Pickard, of the Irish Guards, was out...

Category: Services

June (1)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth....

Category: Services

Travelscope (1)

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNLI READER HOLIDAY OFFERS Ocean Cruise Collection On bOard the MV Van GOgh... Award-winning tour operator Travelscope is simply the name to trust for unbeatable Ocean Cruising at prices that...

Category: Advertisement

February (1)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...

Category: Services

Talvaldis (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...