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Tricia

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 3.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been received from a boat two miles north west of Barmouth. At 4.3 the lifeboat The Chieftain was launched. The...

Albion

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...

Shellduck

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.

As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...

H.M.S. Fossbeck

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Ramsgate, Kent.—Four small fishing boats manned by fifteen men left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938. By ten o'clock a whole S.W.

gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The boats were unable to make harbour,...

A Dinghy (7)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a report was received that a dinghy had capsized between Newlyn and Penzance. A man was seen clinging to her. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 6.14 in a strong north easterly...

Robin Castle Has Been Coxswain /Mechanic of Sheerness Lifeboat

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Robin Castle has been coxswain /mechanic of Sheerness lifeboat since 1981.

In 1987 he was awarded a Bronze medal in recognition of his superb initiative, skill and courage during the famous 'October Hurricane' of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N.

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.

A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a...

Category: Obituaries

Storm Boy

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Man overboard DUNGENESS lifeboat's Emergency Mechanic David Tart was fishing at sea on Wednesday, January 13, 1988 when he observed that a crew member had fallen overboard from the fishing vessel Storm Boy, and that the boat's...

Blue Star

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 11.15 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that the speed boat Blue Star with one man on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 12.07 a.m. on 28th in a gentle north...