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Mab

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1955, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a vessel was burning flares on the south side of the harbour. At 3.55 the life-boat A.E.D. put out. The sea was rough, there...

Tranquillity

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the fishing boat Tranquillity, of Peter- head, had broken down near the More- cambe Bay lightvessel. At 7.18 the coastguard...

Crowds Gather to Celebrate 750 Years of Lifeboating at Newbiggin.

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Crowds gather to celebrate 750 years of lifeboating at Newbiggin.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Swin

Date: August 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 225

The Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat was rung up on the telephone by the Coastguard at 8.55 P.M. on the 13th February and informed that the St. Nicholas Light- vessel was firing signals for a vessel in distress to the north-westward. He...

Clarence

Date: November 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 178

BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Clarence, of Beaumaris, showed signals of distress off Deer Point, about three quarters of a mile from shore, in a strong S.W.

gale, a heavy sea and misty weather, on the 23rd March. The...

Coxswain Philip Boyle

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

Coxswain Philip Boyle of Arranmore died on the 23rd of November, 1958, at the age of 60. He was appointed coxswain of the Arranmore life-boat in 1949 after having served as a bowman from 1935 to 1944 and second coxswain from 1944 to 1949. He...

Category: Obituaries

Isis (1)

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

OAIBTEB AND WIHTEBTON NORFOLK,— The Oaister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden put off on the 19th September and remained by the stranded steamer Jsis, of Newcastle, as the vessel had a large number of men on board who were discharging the cargo....

Ellendale

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.45 on the morning of the 29th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares three hundred yards off Porth Nant Quarry.

At 8.10 the life-boat Charles...

Cheerful

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

On the llth January it was reported to the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing boat Cheerful had not returned from the fishing grounds when expected. A fresh S. to S.S.E. gale was blowing at the time, with a very heavy sea, and...

A Small Boat

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Dover, Kent.—At 11.10 in the morn- ing of the 7th of August, 1948, the dockyard police reported that a small boat had capsized in the bay, and ten minutes later the motor life-boat J. B.

Proudfoot was launched. The sea was...