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Mortar for Maroons

Date: February 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 283

MORTAR for MAROONS.

This Signal Maroon has been adopted by the Institution in place of the Rocket Distress Signal because:

1. As there is no metal in its construction the danger of an accident through...

Category: Drawings

Purple Heather

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 23RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported the motor trawler Purple Heather, of Lowestoft, ashore at Corton. The weather was very cold and foggy, with a heavy ground swell and a southwesterly breeze....

A Dinghy and a Boat

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...

Amirante

Date: Winter 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 483

Fishing boat sinks WEYMOUTH LIFEBOAT was asked to launch by Portland Coastguard at 0945 on Monday November 15. 1982, to go to the help of the fishing boat Amirante reported to be taking water four miles south of Portland...

Six Sailing Dinghies

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

LIFE-BOAT'S FORTUNATE SOCIAL APPEARANCE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was attending the Clacton-on-Sea sailing club regatta on Sunday the 25th August, 1963. She left the slipway at 11.50 a.m. and lay off the...

Allen Frary

Date: Spring 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 556

Allen Frary. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lottery

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

LiFeBoAt LotterY Lifeboat Lottery Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never...

Category: Articles

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Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 4.45 p.m. on 9th January, 1967, information was received that the Trinity House vessel Precedor had reported that two men were flashing lights from the Rough Towers and appeared to require assistance. The...

Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...

Peterhead:

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs