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A Motor Boat

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Falmouth, Cornwall. On the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the police at Falmouth informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had lost her rudder and had struck a rock near Rosemullion Point. The life-boat Crawford and Constance...

Lilida

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...

Fairy Queen

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

WEXFORD.—While the fishing fleet were returning, on the 2nd March, a strong gale having suddenly sprung up from S.S.W. with a rough sea, one of the boats was observed to fly signals of distress, and another, with her sails blown away,...

Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 153)

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.

The operation was completed by 1720 and...

Category: Services

Sunset Ceremony Truro Cathedral:

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

Sunset Ceremony, Truro Cathedral: while Royal Marine buglers, accompanied by the Band of HM Royal Marines, Commando Forces, sounded evening colours, Penlee lifeboatmen lowered the RNLI standard before the Cross of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

by Peter Orme A cheery wave from HRH The Duchess of Kent aboard the Mersey class lifeboat Marine Engineer after the naming ceremony in London's Docklands on 25 April 1991.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Why Worry

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a local crab boat was showing a red flag on an oar two and a half miles east-by-north of the coastguard...

Robert and Mary

Date: November 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 226

The fishing coble Robert and Mary had gone off fishing early in the morning of the 23rd March, and when returning at 8.30 A.M.

it was seen that her passage over the bar would be attended with consider- able peril for...

Fishing Cobles

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.

the fishing...

Eaton

Date: August 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 257

Clacton - on - Sea and Walton - on - the- Naze, Essex. — During a moderate northerly gale on the 17th January, a wireless message was received stating that a trawler was ashore on the Barrow Sand. This message was con- veyed both to Clacton...