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Launcher Will Soon Be 100

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.

It is recalled that, with his brother who...

Category: Articles

A Rowing Boat

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...

Herbruder

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

On the following morning the gale had somewhat moderated, after a terrible night; but the sea was still very rough.

At about noon the Dutch galliot Her- Iruder went ashore, and the Life-boat was again promptly manned, and...

White Heather

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...

Squall

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the coxswain noticed that the yacht Squall, of Belfast, which was anchored in the harbour, was dragging towards the pier. At 8.30 the life-boat Douglas...

Vintage Occasion

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Govenor Maclean, of London

Date: January 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 55

On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and launched, and took...

A Yacht (1)

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Worthing, Sussex. At i.io p.m. on 2gth May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized three miles east of the station.

At 1.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong...

Argo Delos

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

On the 22nd of October, 1960, the Portrush life-boat rescued fourteen men from the Greek vessel Argo Delos. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Samuel Cunningham was awarded the silver medal for gallantry,...

Branch Knees-Up

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

Cwmbran branch and Parsley Hay country dance band recently organised a ceilidh at Cwmbran Rugby Club in aid of the RNLI. You can see from the above photograph that the band fully entered into the spirit of the occasion - but this comes as no... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs