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Gipsy Queen

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...

Christina Dawn

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Troon, Ayrshire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow rescued nine lives from the steamer Christina Dawn, of Gloucester.

Rewards, the thanks of the Institu- tion on vellum to the coxswain...

Elena R

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

NOV. 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

At 11.25 P.M. a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a vessel had been sunk by enemy action near the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea...

Savourna

Date: February 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 235

During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...

John Orwell Phillips

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the collier John Orwell Phillips of London that a member of her crew was in a coma...

51 Months of War.

Date: December 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 14

In 51 moncas of war our life-boats have rescued 5,385 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 191 medals for gallantry..

Category: Articles

Aurelia

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...

Three Canoes

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

THREE CANOES IN DISTRESS Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1947, three young men, visitors, got into diffi- culties while out in canoes off Colwell Bay. One of the three canoes got ashore safely; another...

None (8)

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1954.

the St. Anthony coastguard reported that what appeared to be an upturned boat had been seen half a mile off Hemmick Beach, to the west of Dod- man. At...

Galway Lifeboat Crew Members

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Galway lifeboat crew members put the Atlantic 75, Dochas, through her paces during a training exercise on 3 February 2000. - View image in PDF

Photo: © Philip Cloherty. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs