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City of Dublin

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

TOWED BY TANKER At 11.40 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coxswain was informed that a tanker had taken a drifting yacht in tow two miles east of Greystones. The two members of her crew had been taken aboard while, with the yacht in tow, the...

Puffin, of Rochester

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...

A Rubber Dinghy

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

RUBBER DINGHY CARRIED OUT TO SEA Barmouth, Merionethshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1947, an aircraftsman got into difficulties while bathing. He found himself un- able to swim ashore and got into arubber dinghy, but he was...

Malcolm Macdonald, BEM

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

Malcolm Macdonald BEM, coxswain of Stornoway lifeboat from 1952 to 1972. He joined the crew in 1935 and served as second coxswain from 1946 until his appointment as coxswain. He was awarded a Bronze medal in 1952, a Silver medal in 1962 and...

Category: Obituaries

Express Annie Brooks and Mary Ann

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on...

Jenny, of Whitby

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

The Thomas Wilson life-boat at Whitburn was the means of saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Jenny, of Whitby, which became a total wreck on Cape Kerr Point, off Whitburn ..

On Passage

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

The new Barmouth life-boat, The Chieftain, off St. David's Head, on her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes, with the Porthdinllaen life-boat, in February, 1949.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Medal for a Life-Boat Model

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

COXSWAIN GEORGE SWARTS, of Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, has won a bronze medal in the shipping class at the Model Engineering Exhibition held in London, with a model of the life-boat at The Mumbles..

Category: Awards

Gift from a Whaling Ship

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

A GIFT has been received of £15 3s. from the British members of the crew of the whaling factory ship Southern Empress on her return from the Antarctic..

Category: Donations

Duchess

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- tay sandbank on the south side of the entrance to the Tay. As no other boat was...