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Emma and John

Date: February 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 251

.—-At 11 o'clock on the night of the 19th December, a message was received by telephone reporting that a vessel was making distress signals off the Hook Sands at the entrance of Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Hamar was promptly launched...

Hector

Date: August 1874

Volume: 09

Issue: 93

The No. 1 Life-boat of this station, the Parsee, after two unsuccessful attempts, boarded the Hector, a brigantine of New- castle, which on the 9th December was run ashore by her crew to avoid foundering.

This service was...

Rescue Party Rescued

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

La Corbieri

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Salcombe, Devon. — Late on the night of the 7th of August, 1952, a report was received that flares had been seen, and at 11.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched, with the honorary secretary, Commander A. C. Roberts, on...

Maria

Date: August 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 217

About midnight on the 6-7th of March, during hazy weather, the coastguard observed a vessel ashore about a mile to the north of Palling and reported it. The No. 1 Life-boat, 54

A Fishing Boat (2)

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Aberystwyth D class inflatable lifeboat was launched on the morning of Tuesday January 12 to go out to meet a fishing boat bringing in people from New Quay and taking back medical supplies and yeast. There were breaking seas on the harbour...

Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd Branch

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd branch (pictured left in RNLI jackets) went on a 'sponsored spirit sprint' to Jamesons whisky distillery in the Irish Republic - raising over £1,000 for the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Ofelia

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island....

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Runswick, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 18th February six Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing grounds. The' weather was then fine, but there was a strong swell running. The southerly wind rose from a strong breeze to...

A Vessel (23)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 2ND. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A vessel had been reported on fire six miles S.E by S. of Berry Head, but the Torbay life-boat could find nothing. Next day the life-boats at Exmouth and Torbay were launched to a vessel reported to be...