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Hold Up

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

A cartoon published in the Birmingham Mail on life-boat day.

Reproduced by kind permission of the Editor..

Category: Drawings

Rival

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

On the 28th December, at 4 A.M., large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand. The Life-boat Covent Garden was launched, and proceeded to the Cross Sand, on "which, a very heavy sea -was running, and found a brig ashore on...

Nahula

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that one of the yachts in the race round the island had been dismasted. At 10.20 the life-boat Helena Harris-Manchester and District XXXI was...

Lynmouth Launch

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

A VIVID account of the famous launch of the Lynmouth life-boat in 1899 after she had been transported over Exmoor is included in Exmoor Wan- derings by E. 11. Delderfield (Raleigh Press, Exmouth, 5s.)..

Category: Articles

Sea Hunter

Date: March 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 367

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and...

Our New Patron

Date: August 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 237

His Majesty King George the Fifth and President in 1902, His Majesty has has graciously consented to become never ceased to lend his powerful and Patron in succession to His late Majesty, and the Committee feel greatly encouraged by this...

Category: Articles

None

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Islay, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be used to collect the ballot boxes used in the General Election from Colonsay Island, as no other boat was...

Florence II

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Exmouth, Devon.—The motor lifeboat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 27th July, 1938, to the auxiliary yacht Florence II, of Southampton, which had been under observation by the coastguard for some time. A fresh and...

Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld Poole

Date: Spring 1975

Volume: 44

Issue: 452

A force 6 to 7 wind was blowing when Poole's new 44' class lifeboat was named Augustine Courtauld after the well-known explorer by his sister Lady Rayner at Poole Harbour Y.C.

Marina on Wednesday, May 7; caught up...

Category: Inaugurations

Meteor

Date: November 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 206

BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—The ketch Meteor, of London, bound for Dunkirk with a cargo of pitch, had her mainsail and jib blown away in a south-westerly gale on the 3rd May when about two miles from the South Foreland. In response to her signals of...