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Spitfire

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...

Mr K M Aldridge, MBE

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Mr K M Aldridge, MBE honorary secretary at Weymouth lifeboat station from 1951 to 1975. He was honorary treasurer from 1940 to 1951..

Category: Obituaries

Venture

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 7.5 on the night of the 25th of January, 1951, the police sent a message that a fishing boat was reported to have made flares off the Tolsta Head. At 7.30 the life-boat William and Harriet was launched in...

A Cabin Cruiser

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

FLASHING LIGHT SEEN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.40 p.m. on 26th September 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the coaster Mary Birch had reported at 11.30 a.m. seeing a small flashing light north-west of Blacktail...

None (4)

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

A private resident of Paignton telephoned to the Coastguard on the night of 27th April that he had seen a rocket about three miles east of Paignton Head. He thought that it had been fired from a boat in trouble eastward of a line from Berry...

Gold Medallion

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Gold medallion The photograph below shows a 15-carat gold 'Lifeboat Saturday' medallion of 1895 from Manchester and Salf ord which was awarded to the 'Whalley Range C.C.' as first prize in the cyclists and harriers fancy... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fravizo

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1960, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that a baby had been born on the m.v. Fravizo and that the master had asked for a doctor as soon as possible. It...

Marabut

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

DEAD WOMAN FOUND IN SEA Anstruther, Fife. At 12.49 on the afternoon of Wednesday the 31 st of July, 1963, the coastguard at Anstruther informed the honorary secretary that the Polish trawler Marabut had reported that she was standing by the...

By Courtesy of Francois Martin and League of Red Cross Societies (1)

Date: April 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 435

by courtesy of Francois Martin and League of Red Cross Societies. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Thuella

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

SMOKE SIGNALS SAVE YACHT Salcombe, South Devon. At 6.5 p.m.

on Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the Prawle Point coastguard reported to the honorary secretary that smoke signals had been seen south of Bolt Head. At 6.10...