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Plouer

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

About 1 P.M. on the 29th June, during a whole N. by E.

gale, information reached Margate that a ketch was in distress off Reculvers.

With considerable difficulty owing to the heavy surf breaking on the...

Deevale

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

RED FLARES SEEN Lerwick, Shetlands. At about 12.20 a.m. on 27th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted from the direction of Ham on the island of Bressay. There were light southerly airs...

Iselle

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Margate, Kent. At 11.6 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile east of Queen's buoy, and that the motor vessel Miletence was standing by unnl the...

Beaulieu Boat Jumble

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Beaulieu Boat Jumble must surely be the biggest jumble sale of nautical goods in the country, if not the world! The 1985 jumble, held in March, raised £2,000 for Lymington branch made up as follows: £1,013 from jumble sales,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Kestrel

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

At 12.35 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a small boat which had been towing a boat with engine trouble had slipped the tow five miles south of the breakwater.

There were three men on board...

Garland

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...

Life-Boat Balloon Race

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

ON September 6th the Brighton and Hove branch arranged a balloon race, with the help of Messrs. J. Lyons, who supplied the balloons. The race con- tinued all day, and among those who came to see it were the Mayor of Hove, one of the two...

Category: Donations

Jane Sophia

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 10th December, the schooner Jane Sophia, of Aberystwith, whilst attempting to cross the Bar before the tide served, struck on the South Bank. It was blowing very hard from N.N.W., and a heavy sea was running at the time. A pilot-boat,...

Special Appeals

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...

Category: Donations

Cover Picture

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

Recovery ofClogher Head's 35' 6" Liverpool lifeboat, Thomas Corbett. She has been beached, turned and then recarriaged. The tractor has been attached and all is ready for towing up the beach to the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs