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Brecon Castle

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Valentia, Co. Kerry.^At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1954, the steam trawler Brecon Castle, of Swansea, arrived at Valentia with a sick man. A doctor examined him and decided to have him taken ashore, but the weather...

Bridlington Memorial Service

Date: September 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 303

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...

Category: Articles

Erin

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...

Marie Hendrika

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

YACHT POUNDED AGAINST HARBOUR WALL Dover, Kent. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Marie Hendrika was drifting into the full force of a westsouth-...

Thais (1)

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...

Ronan Age Seven

Date: Autumn 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 570

Ronan Age Seven. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lochgoil

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

OCT. 6TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 6 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a steamer of...

S.S. J. B. Paddon

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At about 9.40 A.M. a request came from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to land an injured man, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H.F. Bailey was...

Sprite

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — On 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M. the motor lifeboat Edward Z....

Norman Wells

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Norman Wells, an honorary life governor and formerly honorary secretary of the Kingston on Thames branch. He was awarded the silver badge in 1967 and the gold badge in 1979, becoming an honorary life governor last year..

Category: Obituaries