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Standard

Date: February 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 215

About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...

Marz

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

THUBSO, CAITHNESS - SHIRE, and LONGHOPE, OBKNEYS.—On the morning of the 17th June information was received that a vessel was in distress off Stroma Island, in the Pentland Firth, and the Thurso Motor Life-boat H.C.J.

was...

Sheringham Lifeboat Crew Member David Williams

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Stations Closed.

Date: March 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 3

The Dover station was temporarily closed at the beginning of October, 1940, as the arrangements of the Admiralty made a life-boat station there unnecessary. The life-boat was taken over by the Admiralty a month later to be used in rescuing...

Category: Articles

A Fishing Coble

Date: November 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 226

A N.N.E. gale suddenly sprang up off Newbiggin on the 17th April whilst the fishing cobles were at sea, causing the sea to become very rough and rendering their return very risky. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was launched soon after noon, and...

On Fire

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

The Cardiff steamer Porthcawl, from which the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rescued twenty-five men on 14th September. - View image in PDF

This photograph was taken from the air. (See page 162.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Thelma

Date: February 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 191

SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...

Bessey III

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

LIFE-BOAT COXSWAIN DIES AFTER HIS FISHING BOAT SINKS Coverack, Cornwall. On Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, a telephone message was received by the second coxswain from the mechanic that the fishing vessel Bessey III, of Coverack, owned by...

Tri-Ang Motor Lifeboat

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

This photograph shows the toy lifeboat which reader O N Carson referred to in his letter (mi: LIFEBOAT. Autumn 19K7, page 206). The model is approximately ten inches long and is clockwork powered. It is constructed from plastic, except for... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Speedwell

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

New Brighton, Cheshire. — On the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Speedwell, with the life-boat's second coxswain and a life- boatman on board, had gone out.

On the following morning, as she had not...