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Schell-Ficher

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the German trawler Schell-Ficher. This stated that a mem- mer of her crew...

J H Barrow

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 6th March, it was reported that a vessel about a mile to the north of the harbour was making signals of distress. There was a strong S.S.E. gale at the time and the sea was very heavy. With great promptness the...

A Catamaran

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.56 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran was in difficulties half a mile south-east of Crab Island, Rotherslade, and that her crew of two had...

Scottish Fishermen Return Rewards

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...

Category: Articles

Royal Humane Society Awards

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

MR. J. K. BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Sennen Cove life-boat station, and seven other men, have been awarded certificates of commen- dation of the Royal Humane Society.

They helped to rescue five men of the crew...

Category: Awards

Holidays Galore

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

Scotland's 1983 Holidays Galore prize draw, which grossed about £10,000 for the lifeboats by the sale of tickets by branches and guilds, took place on August 5.

First prize, a cruise to Faroes on the Smyril Line MF... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Following In Grandfather's Footsteps

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

Coxswain Robert Harland of the Whitby motor life-boat and his grandson. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Taki

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar....

Sevona

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

Selsey, Sussex. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported off Bognor and that further enquiries were being made. At 2.40 the coastguard reported that...

Eminence

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

AIDING THROMBOSIS PATIENT At 1.35 a.m. on 26th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Eminence bound from Sunderland to Goole wished to land a sick seaman at Whitby. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and...