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A Dinghy

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a...

Index to Advertisers

Date: Spring 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 472

Aegis Insurance Services (Group) Ltd . . .67 Birds Eye Foods Ltd .. .Inside Front Cover Evett Sailwear Ltd 72 Glanvill Enthoven & Co Ltd 38 David Jolly (Tiller Master) 72 Mercantile Credit Inside Back Cover Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd 38...

Category: Index

A Dredger

Date: June 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 314

24th-25th February. Failed to find a dredger in distress on the 24th, but went out again next morning, only to find that she did not then need help.—Rewards, £28 4s. Qd..

Three Fishing Cobles

Date: February 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 87

On the 27th September three fishing cobles, belonging to Cullercoats, while returning from fishing about 9 o'clock in the morn- ing, were unable to cross the bar, owing to the heaviness of the sea. The wind was blowing from the east at...

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...

Self Service:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Burning Vessel

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MARCH 1 7TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

A burning vessel had been seen at night ten miles out at sea, but only burning oil was found. The life-boat was launched with great difficulty at dead low water in a rough sea and the...

J. W. Wearing

Date: February 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 203

RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence reached this Life-boat station on the 8th December that a vessel was in distress in the offing. The Life-boat was quickly got ready and launched and the following report subsequently furnished by the...

Islamount

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...

Happy Return

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...