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Reward Returned

Date: December 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 18

Two men serving in the merchant navy took the places of two absent men in the Maryport life-boat when she put out in a gale to search for an aeroplane. They were given the same rewards as the life-boatmen, nineteen shillings each. One of...

Category: Articles

Holy Island

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

From a photograph by Capt. E. W. Swan, C.B.E., VD.. D.L.. R.N.V.R.. a member of the Committee 0} Management and Chairman of the Tyr.emouth Branch.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Miss H B Allen (Above)

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Miss H. B. Allen (above) receives three cheers after the naming of her lifeboat, the 47ft Tyne class, James Burrough, (above I.). - View image in PDF

Photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Alcide

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

The schooner Alcide, of Dunkirk, stranded in the East Bay, Dungeness, soon after I A.M. on the 28th February, but as she made no signals she was not seen. At 7 A.M. the vessel was observed, and a tug pro- ceeded to her and towed her into...

Threesome

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 3.43 p.m. on 3rd October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with her engine broken down and her sail torn was firing flares four miles south south east of Ventnor. The life-boat...

Lena

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Arbroath, Angus. At 11.3 on the night of the 6th September, 1961, a message was received from the Mont- rose life-boat station asking for the help of the Arbroath life-boat in the search that was being made for the pleasure boat Lena of...

Functional Clothing

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Airflow" JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The...

Category: Advertisement

Grit

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

The Sandgate coast- guard telephoned to the coxswain, at 3 A.M. on the 22nd February, that a ship had been sounding S O S on her hooter. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. At 3.28 A.M.

the motor...

S.S. Giacomo Matteotti

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Walmer, Kent. — At 10.55 in the morning of the 26th of January, 1949, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the South Goodwin Lightvessel that a ship was aground about one and a quarter miles north-east of her, and the motor life-boat...

Colonel Moir

Date: February 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 247

In answer to signals of distress, and a message from the Lighthouse, the. Life-boat Helen Smitten was launched shortly after 6 P.M. on the 26th March. The Ketch Colonel Moir, in a dismasted state, was found drifting helplessly about three...