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Arrow

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

HOWTH.—On the 22nd November, the Clara Baker Life-boat put off to the smack Arrow, of Guernsey, which was in a sinking state in the middle of the harbour, and remained by her until she grounded and the water had left her..

Ariadne Johanna

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.

—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...

Thyminia

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the...

A Trimaran

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

DRIFTING TRIMARAN TOWED TO SAFETY Howth, Co. Dublin. At eight o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, the Baily lighthousekeeper told the honorary secretary that a trimaran had been seen drifting and apparently out...

Safety Awards

Date: Summer 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 584

The RNLI has won a prestigious award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

The gold award was given in recognition of the Institution’s commitment to protecting the health and safety of its...

Category: Articles

Victor

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...

Mazurka

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.10 on the night of the 3rd of March, 1949, rockets were seen in the direction of Swona, and the life-boat crew assembled while the coastguard made enquiries.

At 10.30 they reported flares to the...

Sovereign

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Tyne saves crew of fjve from stranded fishing vessel Fraserburgh's Tyne class lifeboat City of Edinburgh was involved in a service on 11 September 1995 which although fairly short in duration was commended by the divisional inspector of...

Station Profile Weymouth

Date: Winter 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 559

Weymouth lifeboat station, in Dorset, was established in 1869 to replace Portland station, which had closed down in 1850. Funded by the Earl of Stratford, the lifeboat gave assistance to vessels in distress on the north and east sides of...

Category: Articles

Rescued from a Minesweeper

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

An injured man on board the Margate life-boat. He was one of four of the crew of a minesweeper who were seriously injured when she was blown up and sank on 20th November, 1939.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs