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Miniature Life-Boat Medals

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

THE Institution is issuing to living holders of its gold, silver and bronze medals, miniature reproductions of their medals. These miniatures will be half the size of the originals. They will have on them the reverse of j the originals,...

Category: Medals

Glenwood

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 6th of February, 1948, the motor barge Glen- wood, of Rochester, bound for Newport in the Isle of Wight, got into difficulties off Dumpton Gap. She was seen by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, which sent...

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Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...

Lewant

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 10.30 P.M. the coastguard at Donaghadee reported a steamer ashore in Belfast Lough. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rough. A later message asked for help, and the...

Stan Woolaway

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...

Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...

Category: Services

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...

Category: Advertisement

Arbroath Memorial

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...

Category: Articles

Juno

Date: February 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 219

On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and with all speed...

Redshank

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JUNE 21ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.35 P . M . a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had...