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Morning Star

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

DECEMBER 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

During the morning while the fishing boats were out an east-south-east wind sprang up, causing a heavy surf on the beach. As the boat Morning Star, with a crew of three, had not returned by...

Coxswain Derek Scott

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Coxswain Derek Scott BEM holds the freedom scroll presented to The Mumbles station by Swansea City Council. Looking on is the Lord Mayor, Mrs Lilian Hopkin. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of Western Mail and Echo. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Happy Returns

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.21 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1951, the coastguard passed on the news that a Trinity House vessel had, through Newhaven Radio, reported the East- bourne fishing vessel Happy Returns disabled by an engine...

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....

Liberator

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

On the 13th of May, 1953, the Valentia life-boat found the French trawler Liberator, of Camaret, south of the Blasket Islands after an eight- hour search in a very rough sea. The coxswain took the life-boat close to the stern of the trawler...

An Inflatable Dinghy

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

Divers in trouble FIVE PEOPLE in an inflatable dinghy in difficulty on the lee side of Dulas Island were reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Holyhead Coastguard at 1408 on Monday August 21, 1978, and at 1417 the...

Buckingham

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.

—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...

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...

Betty Grant Celebrates Her 95th Birthday With David Steel (Chairman Queensferry Lifeboat Fundraising Branch), And Her Daughter And Son-in-Law Liz And George Grubb

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

Betty Grant celebrates her 95th birthday with David Steel (Chairman Queensferry lifeboat fundraising branch), and her daughter and son-in-law Liz and George Grubb Photo: Hamish Campbell. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Dinghy (1)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Appledore, Devon - At 10.35 a-mon 25th June, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy he had been watching for about half an hour had capsized off North Tail.

The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker slipped...