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Helping a Sick Soldier

Date: June 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 16

The New Brighton life-boat carried out a very difficult service when, in a -rough sea, she brought a sick soldier ashore from a fort. He had to be lowered into the life-boat, lashed to his stretcher, while she was in violent motion all the...

Category: Articles

Fishing Boats (4)

Date: August 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 177

BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...

Raider

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...

Aurora

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

TOW FOR PLEASURE BOAT WITH SIX ABOARD Arbroath, Angus. At 8.47 on the evening of the 28th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the life-boat motor mechanic that the crew of a small boat were burning red flares three quarters of a mile west...

Inland Lifeboat

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Inland lifeboat Shoppers in Didcot town centre got a surprise in June when they were greeted with a D class inflatable lifeboat.

Didcot branch decided to put on the display to help raise awareness and mark the RNLI's... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Doctor Do-A-Lot

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

As Doctor George Middleton MBE retires as deputy honorary medical adviser (HMA) of St Davids lifeboat, he reflects back on his first service with the station shortly after his appointment as HMA in 1956.

The lifeboat... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Yacht Roulette

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 12th April the Hoy lake Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was called out to the assistance of a small yawl yacht, the Roulette, of Hoylake, which became unmanageable when off Dover Point. The W.N.W. wind was very...

Boulmer Naming Ceremony

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

The Right Hon. the Viscount Runciman, P.C., and the Duchess of Northumberland. - View image in PDF

(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (1)

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.

At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...

None

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.

—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...