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48 Hours of Gale

Date: Autumn 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 450

66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...

Category: Services

Sandrae

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.

Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...

A Rowing Dinghy

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...

A Rowing Boat

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

EXHAUSTED MEN TAKEN OFF BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had reported a small rowing boat drifting out to sea off Green Hill...

Fairey Marinteknik (Uk) Ltd

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION m The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat Institution": As early as 1929/30 the...

Category: Advertisement

Ceremonies

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Saturday 16 October 1993 saw the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Mersey class Girvan lifeboat Silvia Burrell, a truly remarkable occasion for the lifeboat community of Girvan, as well as the famous Burrell family. Around...

Category: Inaugurations

Mrs Daisy Gosnay

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

Mrs Daisy Gosnay, vice president of Aldeburgh and District Ladies' guild. She was the last direct surviving descendant of the 1899 Aldeburgh lifeboat disaster..

Category: Obituaries

A Steamer (8)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

FEBRUARY 20TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A steamer had been mined east of the Tyne Piers, but she was beached and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards , £7 15s. 6d.

Penguin

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...

Viking and Loch Maree

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...