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Lifeboats In Action

Date: Winter 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 563

Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...

Category: Services

How a Trimaran Was Saved

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

AT Lowestoft on Saturday the 21st July, 1962, a large number of holiday- makers watched a drama take its course as a trimaran was brought safely into harbour after spending some hours in distress in full view of the...

Category: Articles

Glebe

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...

The Trinity House Vessel Reculver

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1 0 A.M. an explosion was heard to the north-east of the life-boat station, and the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Caister Look-out had seen aircraft diving towards the sea,...

Two Brave Deeds

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.

THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...

Category: Awards

Spreety

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...

In This Issue

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...

Category: Contents

Nerves of steel

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?

Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...

Category: Articles

Samsal (1)

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...

Sunbeam

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...