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Rachel and Premier

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 12th of December,1957, the coxswain saw that the weather was deteriorating and asked permission of the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing cobles still at...

Formosa

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

At 8.30 A.M. on the 13th November a coast- watcher reported that a three-masted barque was off St. David's Head with her sails blown away and apparently totally disabled. A moderate N.N.W.

gale was blowing at the time...

Moon Dragon

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...

Benimora

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...

Shanty Competition

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

The R.N.L.I. is looking for talent for a lifeboatmen's shanty competition. The idea is for one song, essentially about the sea, to be composed and sung by a group of five life-boatmen serving or retired. Groups of life-boatmen wishing to...

Category: Articles

(Left) Solent:

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

(left) Solent: length overall, 48ft 6in; beam 14ft; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 27 tons; maximum speed, over 9 knots; range at full speed, 240 nautical miles. The Solent, introduced in 1969, is a development of the 48ft 6in Oakley and she... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Birthday honours

Date: 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 609 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2014

Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.

Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...

Category: Articles

Lady Maud

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

On the evening of the 24th April a telephone message was received from the coast- guard that a barge was anchored off Platters reef with her sprit-sail blown away, and was flying a distress signal.

A motor boat had...

Jo-Anne (1)

Date: Autumn 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 458

Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: February 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 143

BERWICK-ON-TWEED. — Five fishingboats having been overtaken by a sudden heavy gale from the S.E., on the morning of the 15th October, were seen running for the harbour, and as the tide was low, and there was a strong sea on the bar, it was...