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Baldur

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...

Monte Gurugu (1)

Date: December 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 352

Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.

—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...

Celestina

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

At 7.45 P.M. on the 1st October the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was called out by flares and rockets which had been seen in a north- easterly direction. About two miles from the east Margate buoy they found the schooner Celestina, of...

None (10)

Date: June 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 416

MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...

Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...

Category: Obituaries

Pearl

Date: November 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 242

— Shortly after 1 A.M. on 31st March a rocket and a flare were seen near Kettleness Point during a break in a thick fog. This was reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Hester BothscMld,vrho ordered the launch of the boat. She proceeded...

A Motor Cruiser and a Yacht

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Cruiser sinks minutes after crew rescued Fowey South West Division The vigilance of Fowey Deputy Launching Authority Capt Mike Mitchell, which led to the Fowey lifeboat leaving harbour as a casualty fired her first red flare, has been...

Dick Evans

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Dick Evans Former Moelfre coxswain, on 14 September.

Category: Obituaries

Fishing Cobles

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1960, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted to escort several local fishing cobles to harbour, as a gale was blowing from the east and causing a...

Wicklow

Date: February 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 264

ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat immediately proceeded to the...

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