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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...

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...

S.S. Favorit

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...

William and Sarah Ann

Date: February 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 167

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 1 A.M.

on the 25th July, the side lights of a vessel were observed near the Barber Sand and it appeared that she was in great danger of stranding, and shortly afterwards flares were seen from the...

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...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 208

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of—- 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...

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Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

Easter falls on a beach As the 2006 lifeguarding season got off to a brisk start, Perranporth beach unusually saw two incidents involving horse riders within a week. On Maundy Thursday, a woman was thrown from her galloping horse when it was...

Marigold

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

Early on the 14th February, three local fishing boats put out to fish off Brims Ness.

At 8 A.M. a sudden N.E. gale broke, with heavy snow and sleet. The sea was very rough. As the boats were on a lee shore it was decided to...

Vivian

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Ifracombe, Devonshire.—At 1.35 P.M.

on the 8th February the coastguard at Widmouth, Hfracombe, reported that a motor fishing boat was at sea, and had passed out of his sight. It was found that she was the local boat Vivian...

A Sea Venom Aircraft

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Sea Venom aircraft with a crew of two had ex- ploded in the air off Lilstock one mile from the shore....