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Bonnie Lass

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw...

Ingrid II and Thelas

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...

Adventure, George and Margaret and Louisa Twyzell

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...

A High Speed Launch

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

JANUARY 13TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

At 1.30 in the morning the Wick coastguard telephoned that a high speed launch was ashore at the Beacon, the southwest point of Stroma. The weather was calm and the sea smooth. The motor...

Naming Ceremony at Ilfracombe

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

THE naming ceremony of a new motor life-boat at Ilfracombe, Devon, took place on 16th June. The life-boat is one of the first two of the new surf type, described on page 167. She has cost £2,750, and has been built out of a legacy from...

Category: Inaugurations

Venus

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

Plymouth, Devon.—At5.5 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that the motor vessel Venus, of Bergen, waiting to embark passengers for Madeira, had wirelessed that she was dragging her anchor in...

Trainee Crew Member Amy Veasey,

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Trainee crew member Amy Veasey, joined by personal donations manager Sue Hennessy, picks one of the lucky winners Photo: ORNU/DK. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...

Rosebud

Date: November 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 222

The fishing- smack Rosebud, of Dublin, when making for the harbour about 11 A.M. on the 7th March, was driven on the south wall close to the bar. It was blowing a moderate gale from S.W., and the vessel commenced to bump heavily and for some...

Richard Hawkins

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

Richard Hawkins joined Dover lifeboat crew in 1959; he was an assistant motor mechanic at Dover from 1974 before being appointed coxswain/ mechanic of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in 1976.

He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs