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Penguin

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard telephoned that a vessel was waving a red flag two miles east of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 12.31 in a calm sea....

Yacht Medea

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There...

Top Filler

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

Richard Hill (left), a regular at the Manor House Inn in Ditcheat, Somerset, is an enthusiastic RNLI supporter - with his powers of persuasion he manages to maintain a constant flow of donations from friends and other... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Converted Ship's Boat

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.12 on the night of the 9th June, 1963, the Walney Island lighthouse keeper rang up the coxswain to say that three people in a small boat were signalling with a flag a mile...

Christina

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE ABOARD Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen coming from a converted ship's boat a mile...

A Village Bazaar

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

£83 from a Population of 558.A LIFE-BOAT worker who lives in the village of Shuttleworth, near Ramsbottom, in Lancashire, held a Life-boat Bazaar on 8th May. Her party consisted of herself, her two daughters and five working girls. The...

Category: Donations

A Dinghy

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

Rescued four SHORTLY BEFORE 1645 on March 27, 1987, a dinghy with five people on board capsized in the roads to the north west of Falmouth lifeboat station.

Mr John Pentecost, working nearby in his Quay Punt workboat...

Arethusa

Date: January 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 55

On the 5th November the services of the same life-boat were again called into requi- sition to go off to the rescue of 6 labourers on board the barque Arethusa, which was wrecked about two miles west of Lossie- mouth on the 1st inst. The men...

A Royal Navy Inflatable Dinghy

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Four divers snatched from explosives danger areaPrompt action by Whitby' s Tyne class lifeboat during the exploding of a war-time land mine has earned the Coxswain and crew a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of...

A Motor Trawler

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JANUARY 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor trawler’s engine had broken down, but another trawler helped her. - Rewards, £14 6s. 6d..