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St Simeon (1)

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...

A Dinghy

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.

The ILB launched at 1225....

I name this lifeboat ...

Date: Autumn 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 601 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2012

Children have been given a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to name a lifeboat in a recent competition. As well as choosing the name of a new Shannon class, the winner and their family will be VIP guests at the naming...

Category: Articles

Trusty, of Boston

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

Another rescue was effected at this life- boat station on the 19th October. The schooner Trusty, of Boston, was stranded off Runton about a mile and a-half eastward of Sheringham Beach. It was blowing a fearful gale from the N.N.E. at the...

Festive funds for new Shannon class

Date: Spring 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 619 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2017

Thank you for your kind generosity over the festive season. We had an incredible response to our 2016 Christmas Appeal – you gave £1.3M in total. £750,000 of it is being added to a generous legacy, to fund a new Shannon class...

Category: Articles

Octoroon, of Abersoch

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

SEPTEMBER 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a small vessel drifting on to the Skerries. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat John and Mary...

Marie May (1)

Date: March 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 301

Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).

At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...

Special Gifts

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

From a Cripple's Home.

THE Tiny Tims Cripples Home at Eastbourne Las sent to the Eastbourne Branch a gift of 11s. 9d., made up of the children's own farthings. This is the second time that the Tiny Tims have given...

Category: Donations

Air Bag Installation

Date: Summer 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 453

BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...

Category: Articles