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Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil...

Weathering St Jude

Date: Winter 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 606 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2013

As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases

It was expected to be the...

Category: Articles

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: June 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 281

To Mr. RICHARD BINNY, upon his resignation after 15 years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Padstow Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.

To the Rev. Canon GOLDSMITH, upon his resignation after...

Category: Awards

Mollihawke IV

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor one mile south of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the life-boat City of Bradford...

A Dinghy (8)

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

At 4.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a red dinghy seemed in trouble off Penlee.

Meanwhile, Penlee fog station reported that the dinghy was in danger of being carried on to the rocks. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary...

A Surfboard

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

A severe blow Late afternoon at Polzeath, Cornwall, on 28 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards spotted a young woman being helped out of the black and white flagged area. While surfing, the woman had taken a blow to the back of her head from a...

March (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...

Category: Services

Pilot Me II, Provider A and Lead Us

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

Whitby, Yorkshire.—Three local fish- ing boats were at sea on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, in deteriorating weather, and at 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy sea with a northerly gale blowing....

MacCoy

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 5.45 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1950, the Porthscatho coastguard telephoned that the local motor pleasure boat MacCoy needed help. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood,...

A Solitary Voyager

Date: October 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 26

The schoooner Happy Return, which left Sunderland with coals, was sometime since towed into Dundee by the Hull steamer Queen, with only one hand (a lad named WILLIAM CHARLTON) on board. It seems that after leaving Sun- derland, the schooner...

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