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The Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: February 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 187

THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and the District and Local Life-boat Saturday Committees through- out the country deserve the hearty congratulations of all friends to the Life-boat cause for the pluck and " staying...

Category: Articles

Grace Darling

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...

Silver Medal for Irish Coxswain

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.

At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...

Category: Medals

Journey's End

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Journey's end - Terry George shakes with Kevin Close, surrounded by members of the RNA club and James Bradbury. - View image in PDF

area organiser for Wales and West Mercia.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Valhalla

Date: March 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 427

Redcar, Yorkshire - At 4.40 p.m. on 24th November, 1968, it was learnt that the coble Valhalla had lost her propeller. The life-boat Aguila Wren was launched at 5.5 in a fresh south westerly wind with a moderate sea.

The...

Book Reviews

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

MR. GRANT UDEN has achieved the con- siderable feat of telling the story of the life-boat service in a book of less than ninety pages, which yet includes numer- ous photographs of life-boats, a map of life-boat stations, several charts and...

Category: Articles

Stella Maria

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - at 9.5 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a yacht was firing flares seven miles south of the Needles. The Dutch vessel Advent was standing by.

The owner of the yacht had been...

A Fishing Boat (7)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

DECEMBER 22ND. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

A small fishing boat capsized while attempting to cross the bar at the river mouth, but her crew of three were lost before the life-boat could reach them.- Rewards, £7 19s..<...

Cormorant

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...

Yachts

Date: September 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 397

Fleetvvood, Lancashire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 18th June, 1961, the life-boat was launched for her usual exercise to coincide with the dinghy races organised by the Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club, which were to be held in the...