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St.Paul

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

St Paul is the oldest lifeboat in the collection, being built in 1897 and serving as a lifeboat until 1934. The wide beam is typical of the Norfolk and Suffolk type of lifeboat of the era.

A service by StPaul to a Rye... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hi-Hope and Tyn-Tuc

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

TROUBLE ON THE BAR THE ability to be able to anticipate a dangerous situation is useful at sea and this was demonstrated at Cardigan on 13th August, 1972, when the local ILB was called out before she was actually needed.

At...

Today's Lifeboatmen

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).

Over 44 per cent of all services carried...

Category: Articles

Wilja and A Ship's Boat

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MARCH 10TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

During the morning three men from the Dutch motor vessel Wilja, which was wind-bound in St. Ives Bay, left her in the ship’s boat to come into St. Ives, but were carried out to sea by the...

A Small Rowing Boat

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 9TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.

The motor life-boat T.B.R.H. was launched at 2.10 in the afternoon at the request of the naval officer in charge, Londonderry, to go to the help of a small rowing boat of Nagilligan, which...

Callihaun

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.30 a.m. on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Callihaun was adrift about two miles south of the Breaksea lightvessel.

The life-boat Blanche and Arthur Harris...

Aeolian

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...

Girvan Centenary

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

The centenary commemoration of the Girvan branch was held at Girvan harbour on 2 ist July, 1965, when the centenary vellum was presented by Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, M.A., F.L.A.S., chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish...

Category: Articles

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Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL. 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At midnight on the 14th April, the Donaghadee coastguard asked the life-boat to stand by at the harbour ready to take on board an armed guard. A west wind was blowing, with squalls, and...

Blakeney Dawn

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...