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Smew I

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 30th of May, 1951, the Coast Life Saving Ser- vice telephoned that a yacht had run on the rocks one and a half miles west of Mine Head. At 9.45 the life-boat H. F. Bailey was...

Captain William James Oxley, M.B.E.

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

CAPTAIN WILLIAM JAMES OXLEY, who has been honorary secretary of the Walton and Frinton life-boat station for twenty-three years, and who has been awarded the Institution's in- scribed binoculars, has been appointed a Member of the...

Category: Awards

Her Last Launch

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

The old Blackpool pulling and sailing life-boat putting out.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mystico

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At about 9.30 P.M. on the 31st October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a yacht sailing past the harbour mouth had burnt red flares. A fresh S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...

Janis

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

BembridgB, Isle of Wight—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 25th of May, 195.7, 'the Foreland- coastguard tele- phoned that ; the > yacht Janis, of Bosham, was making little headway a mile and a half south-west of Ventnor pier but was...

Gold Mist

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Dover, Kent.—At 2.28 early on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Lloyds signal station reported that a yacht was drifting off South Foreland.

At 2.40 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3). on temporary...

A Motor Launch (1)

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 5.58 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch needed help between Sully Island and Lavernock Point. At 6.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a...

An Aeroplane (6)

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Shoreha m Harbour, Sussex.—27th June, 1939. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot. The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d.

(For a full account see "Shoreboat...

H.M. Trawler Erraid

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

VELLUM FOR BEMBRIDGE COXSWAIN Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the 5th of December, 1947, the motor life-boat Jessie Lumb rescued eighteen men from H.M. trawler Erraid, and the coxswain was awarded the Institution's thanks on...

Naming Ceremonies

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

DURING the summer new life-boats were named at eight stations, Swanage, New Quay (Cardigan), Eastbourne, Ramsey, Barmouth, Porthdinllaen, Portrush and Newcastle (Co. Down).

Accounts of the ceremonies will be pub- lished...

Category: Articles