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Telegraph

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 18th March, and found the barquentine Telegraph, of Frederikshald, bound from Ghristiania...

Life-Boat Signals

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

LIFE-BOAT SIGNALS.

SIGNIFICATION.

NIGHT.

DAY.

1.—DANGER SEEN.

(To be answered from adjoining Stations as soon as observed.') Two Red-Star...

Category: Drawings

People and Places

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Mr Rumbold serves up the winners Nicholas Smith, alias Mr Rumbold in the BBC television comedy programme 'Are You Being Served?', picked the winning tickets in the RNLI's 77th lottery on 30 April 1997.

Nicholas...

Category: Articles

A Small Boat (5)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JULY 30TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

At 12.30 in the afternoon a report was received from a man at Rhos-on- Sea that a small boat was being carried out to sea off Colwyn Bay. The motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade...

Johnnie-Belinda

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.30 on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was flashing an S O S signal north- west-by-west of the Barrow Deep lightvessel. At 8.58 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

Cold can kill

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

In 1945 a committee was set up by the Admiralty to investigate the cause of loss of life after sinking in the last war, when it was estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 probably died after successfully abandoning ship. As a result of...

Category: Articles

Vanguard

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...

Deirdre

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...

Malianne

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 1.31 p.m' on 26th May, 1969, news was received that a yacht had capsized two miles off shore. At 1.57 the life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched in a fresh south westerly breeze and a rough sea. It was...

Brakesea

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

At 3.45 A.M.

on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...