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The S.S. City of Melbourne

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

Nov. 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At midnight a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the South Goodwins. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 12.20 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...

Phoenix 121

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...

Postscript (From Page 119)

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

the final fruition of this modern policy.

I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...

Category: Articles

Leases of Life-Boat Houses

Date: October 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 18

ALTHOUGH, considering its benevolent object, the small site of ground that is usually required to build a life-boat house on is not likely frequently to become the subject of litigation, yet the Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat...

Category: Articles

General Summary to the 16th Dec, 1865

Date: January 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 59

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them .  444. 

Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . .         £1,570 18 11

Number...

Category: Annual Reports

Boconnoc

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

BUDE, CORNWALL.—On the 2nd May the smack Boconnoc, of Padstow, in attempting to proceed to sea, the wind being very light and there being a considerable ground sea, drifted to the north side of the entrance to the harbour. The master, seeing...

Allison

Date: August 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 113

RYE.—On the morning of the 14th January, the brig Allison, of Whitby, stranded near Jury's. Gap during a strong S.S.W. wind and heavy sea. The crew were then in no danger, and it was hoped that the vessel would get off with the rising...

Committee Members of Helston and Porthleven

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

Committee members of Helston and Porthleven branch Stan Llovd (bicvc/e) and Graham Fern (counter balance) are helping to improve the balance of their branch's account in this tigh! wire act across the entrance to Forth/even Harbour. It... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: February 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 163

APPLEDORE, DEVON.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has re- cently sent a new Life-boat to Appledore, North Devon, to replace one which had been stationed there for many years. The new boat is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, and rows...

Category: Articles

Emma Walker

Date: February 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 199

SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...