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Letters

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...

Category: Correspondence

Fly

Date: February 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 155

TYRELLA, DUNDBUM: BAT.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel which was close to the Long Rocks, during a moderate gale from the S., thick weather, and a rough sea, on the morning of the 1st December, the Life-boat Louisa Burnaby...

Acacia

Date: August 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 185

On the 12th May the ketch Acacia, of London, bound from Grimsby for Faro for the fisheries, was seen in the bay, evidently making for the harbour, in a moderate N.N.E. breeze and a rough sea, and a telephone message was received from the...

Marie

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 17th November, during a very heavy gale of wind and in a high sea, a Prussian brig was seen hoisting signals of distress off this place. The Baroness Windsor life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to her assistance. Three...

(Below Left) Getting Down to Detail: Devon Scouts Who Visitedbideford Shipyard on March 6 Were Shown Over \Vaveney 44-018 By Roger Sullivan Rnli Overseer Steel This

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

(Below left) Getting down to detail: Devon Scouts who visitedBideford Shipyard on March 6 were shown over Vaveney 44-018 by Roger Sullivan, RNLI overseer steel. This lifeboat, to the funding of which Scouts have contributed more than... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bluemaster

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Dungeness, Kent. At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Bluemaster, .and that her master wanted to land...

St. Margaret

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her...

Cape Palliser

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 2.20 A.M. the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat City of Bradford...

Sarah

Date: February 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 179

LITTLEHAVEN.—The smack Sarah, of Milford, bound from Solva to Pembroke Dock, laden with grain, showed a signal of distress, as she was dragging her anchor, while a strong gale was blowing from N.W., with a heavy sea at 11.30A.M.

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Freda, Dorothy, Brighter Hope and Enterprise

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

OCTOBER 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At about 10.30 A.M. the harbour entrance had become dangerous owing to a heavy fresh which was running out on the ebb tide. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. Four...