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Fishing Cobles

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

Thirty-one fishing-cobles belonging to this village were out on the 30th Sept., 1868, when the sea rose, causing them to run for Cullercoats; but, on approaching the bar, it was found they could not attempt to take it without great risk. The...

Shoreline

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...

Category: Articles

Yachts (1)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

SEPTEMBER 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

A north-north-west wind of hurricane force was blowing and the sea was very rough. It was thought advisable for the life-boat to put out, as many yachts, with their crews on board, were at...

Autumn

Date: August 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 189

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded...

None (1)

Date: June 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 404

LAUNCH IN WORST BLIZZARD IN LIVING MEMORY Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. On the 5th February, 1963, the worst blizzard in living memory occurred and all road and air transport came to a halt. By the 8th there was an acute shortage of food, and...

None (3)

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.

D class...

None (46)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

OCTOBER 1ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. Reports had been received that faint SOS calls had been heard and a patch of oil had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Rhyl, £16 14s. ; Beaumaris, £16...

H.M.S. Saltburn

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.

At 11.25 at night the honorary secretary of the life-boat station received a telephone message from the Barrow police that a vessel was arriving off Lightening Knoll at midnight and...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Patron His Most Gracious Majesty the King

Chairman— H eputg= Ibairman— COLONEL SIR FrrzRov CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P. . SIR JOHN CAMKROX LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.,...

Category: Advertisement

Karmt

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Port Askaig, Islay.—On the afternoon of the 31st December the Oban coastguard telegraphed that an aircraft had reported a ship drifting eastward through the Gulf of Corrievreckan, which is north of Jura Island. A strong S.W. breeze was...