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Lifeboat Classes

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

a s p o t t e r ' s g u i d e Why are there so many different designs of lifeboat when the purpose of every lifeboat is so similar-the saving of life at sea? Surely, one might think, all lifeboats are designed to weather the worst of...

Category: Articles

Ivy P.

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Wicklow.—On the evening of the 13th December signals of distress were seen coming from the ketch Ivy P. of Dublin, which was lying at anchor about two miles E.N.E. of Wicklow harbour. A strong S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...

Book Reviews

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).

The great rescues from...

Category: Articles

Wallace J. John

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 6th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a very heavy sea and proceeded to the North Scroby Sand where the barque Wallace J. John, of Gluckstadt, had been totally...

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

On the 3rd March fourteen of the Newbiggin fishing-boats which had ventured out, being overtaken by a strong wind and a high sea, were in great danger. At 11 A.M. the Life-boat was launched and rendered valuable assistance to the boats, all...

Summer Visitors

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

Among the tens of thousands of visitors welcomed this summer by stations throughout the RNLI, there have been at least two who have caused heads to turn.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Westward

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...

Morton Castle

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

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At about 3 A.M., on the 23rd November, the Life-boat Mincing Lane put off to the aid of a schooner which was reported to be showing signals southward of Montrose.

With great difficulty and danger the...

Lizzie

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Propeller fouled A SOFT FISHING BOAT, Lizzie, With tWO men on board was reported overdue by a fisherman at Annan on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 29, 1986. The deputy launching authority at Silloth...

Freda

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JULY 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSIIIRE.

During the morning the fishing fleet had returned, as the weather was getting rough, with the exception of one coble, Freda, and at 12.50 in the afternoon, by which time the wind was blowing...