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Ees Teyr

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 28th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumatis was aground on the south bank of Caer- narvon bar. The...

Festive Funds

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Festive funds Dudley branch chairman, Karl Falk, gave up his Christmas Day and New Year's Eve to collect cash in memory of the lifeboat crew members who lost their lives in the Penlee disaster 18 years ago.

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Category: Photographs

Belgium Life-Boat Returns

Date: September 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 25

On April 4th. the Institution returned the Belgian motor life-boat "Ministere Anscele" which was picked up derelict in the English Channel in September 1940, and placed at the Institution's disposal by the Belgian Government...

Category: Articles

None (3)

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...

Gentle giant

Date: Spring 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 603 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2013

Quietly spoken, Dave Peel far from dominates a room. But his natural modesty belies a life of daring action and passionate commitment

Dave started saving lives 40 years ago – as a Navy diver on...

Category: Articles

Viking and Loch Maree

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 9TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.

During the evening a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...

An Offshore Platform

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...

Andover

Date: August 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 117

GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.

—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...

Morning Star

Date: February 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 151

GORLESTON.—On the 9th October, at about 2 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, Leicester, was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the dandy Morning Star, of Great Yarmouth, on a fishing voyage with a crew of six men, which had stranded on the...

None

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1955,the life-boat coxswain reported that ten people were marooned on the rocks a mile and a half to the west of New Quay. Ten minutes later the life-boat St. Albans was...