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Marie Celine

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

Shortly after 5.30 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coxswain had his attention called to a schooner which since daybreak had shown signs of being unmanageable, and as a strong S.S.W.

gale was blowing with a heavy sea run- ning,...

Divers In Difficulties

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.

Two men and a woman from a university diving club... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Myhaven

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TOW FOR YACHT AFTER FUEL PIPE CLEARED Arbroath, Angus. At 5.20 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Myhaven had broken down with engine trouble three miles north of the...

Nordstern

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

SALCOMBE.—It having been reported on the morning of the 13th January that a steamer was ashore near the Start, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 9 A.M., and when about half a mile off the Prawle, met the boats of the steamer Nordstern, of...

Revellin

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

MAYDAY CALL Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.50 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish fishing vessel Revellin was sending out a Mayday call. There was a moderate northwesterly breeze and a slight...

A Motor Boat (2)

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

FIVE PEOPLE At 6.45 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a small motor boat with five people on board was adrift in the sound of Barra with engine trouble. The life-boat R.A.

ColbyCubbinNo. 3 was...

Paddling Hard: Boto-X 87

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Paddling hard: Boto-X 87 organised by Kennel & Avon Canal Trust raised £7,500 for the RNLI over two davs during the summer. With the support of Devizes and Chippenham branches 120 teams entered the race in inflatable dinghies which... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Smiling Morn

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 15th of July, 1955, the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was bound for her station from Oulton Broad following a routine survey. About 1.10 in the afternoon, when she had reached a position one mile south of Southwold,...

Advent

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.57 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1957, a message was received from a fisher- man that a vessel was ashore at Great- stone. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.25 in a smooth sea. There was a...

Dun Laoghaire September 201986:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Dun Laoghaire, September 20,1986: It was not only a D class inflatable lifeboat that was being handed over to Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station, but a boathouse as well. Sean Barrett, TD (left), Minister of State to the Taoiseach, on behalf of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs