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A Sloop Yacht

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Propeller fouled A SMALL YACHT reported to HM Coastguard by VHP radio on the evening of Saturday October 7, 1978, that a 28ft sloop on passage from Penarth to Porlock Weir was broken down and drifting in Porlock Bay; she required immediate...

Gala

Date: February 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 235

At 11 A.M. on the 25th July during a moderate N.E.

gale the Coxswain of the Life-boat May- hew Medwin observed a vessel in distress in Peel Bay. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled very smartly and the boat launched....

L.B.P.

Date: Winter 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 499

Fishing boat sinks AT 1235 on Thursday August 21, 1986, Oban Coastguard informed Mr A.

McLellan, honorary secretary of Mallaig lifeboat station, that a fishing vesselhad struck rocks on the south coast of Rhum and required...

Lord Launch

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Lord Lichf ield cracks the champagne bottle to launch a week of RNLI fundraising events at the Red Lion public house in Great Haywood near Stafford.

Each night saw a different event, ranging from a quiz night to music by a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Inaugural Ceremony, Blyth

Date: May 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 276

The names of those in front, reading from right to left, are: Mr. C. E.

Baldwin, J.P., the Right Hon. Walter Runciman, Major Barton, R.E., Mr. W. J. Parker (Hon. Secretary), Sir Walter Runciman, Lady Runciman, the Lord... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (2)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.

She was then directed to a position where...

Cover Picture

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

The cover picture by Richard and Sally Greenhill is of Coxswain William Sheader, aged 49, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, who joined the local life-boat in 1945. He was bowman from December, 1951, to December, 1954, when he became second coxswain... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Susie

Date: November 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 222

During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.

and within a few minutes the...

Prince Pops In

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

During his tour of Wales last July, Prince Charles spent the day in Holyhead and at RAF Valley near Trearddur Bay. Following official duties and lunch the Prince made an informal walkabout amongst the public who were enjoying a 'Families... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Belgian Fishing Boats

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

On the loth October several Belgian fishing-boats were bound for Lowestoft with Belgian refugees on board, when two of the boats grounded on the Newcome Sands.

As the sea was rough, the Coxswain, John Swan, of the Life-boat...