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Boston Wasp

Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Filey, Yorkshire - At 7.20 p.m. on I yth September, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Boston Wasp, which was fifty miles off Filey had a badly injured man on board who required immediate medical attention....

Medallists

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

Mr Robin Knox- Johnson, the Atlantic sailor, who is a member of the Committee of Management of the RNLI, declared at the annual meeting: 7 think we should remember their families who stay behind while they go out and risk their lives'.... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Young Talent:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Young talent: this painting was adjudged the winner out of 7,000 entries in a young people's competition organised by Sealink British Ferries as part of last summer's Safe at Sea appeal which raised £150,000 towards a new... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Robbie

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 11.15 p.m.

on 4th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen in the Straits off Beaumaris. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at...

Vanessa

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Sheringham, Norfolk.—-At six o'clock on the evening of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in need of help a quarter of a mile south-east of Sheringham.

At 6.22 the life-boat Foresters Cen-...

Janet and Tempter

Date: November 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 182

NORTH DEAL.—On the morning of the 27th March rockets and guns were fired by the Gull Lightship and large flares were burnt by a vessel in the direction of the Brake sand. The Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 5 o'clock, a...

Forest Queen

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The barque Forest Queen, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Norway in ballast, was reported to be in distress about five miles distant from the Life-boat station, and in danger of being driven on the sandbanks during a...

Lady Sheena

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.

Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...

Neepawa, Fishing Boat Audrey, Lighter Elmsdale, Schooner Westward

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the barge Neepawa, of Rochester, was seen to be in distress a quarter of a mile east of the pier. A whole S.S.W.

gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...

Armen

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Dover, Kent. — At 11.50 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the German tanker Wilhelmina Ess- berger had requested the help of the life-boat to land survivors from the French yacht Armen. Her...