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Courtown: Buzzcut for the Boats

Date: Winter 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 626 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2018/19: Ireland Community News

Courtown Sailing Club (CSC) member Paddy Mac Namara has raised €1,760 for the RNLI. Paddy let his hair grow for a year and then had it all shaved off – branding his event a Buzzcut for the Boats. The very generous donations came from members...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Rayford

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

At 11.30 A.M.

on the 12th December, the Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Rayford, of Glas- gow, which was lying at anchor in a dangerous position in Dunnet Bay.

Owing to...

Nancy

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

At 7.40 P.M.

on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...

Royal Wish Fulfilled

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Royal wish fulfilled When Her Royal Highness Princess Anne named Southendon- Sea's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat last May, she confided in broadcaster Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Sailboard

Date: Summer 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 521

Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...

The Skipper and His Dog

Date: August 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 221

A SEA captain's love for his dog was the cause of an interesting incident in connection with the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by the Clacton Life-boat on 23rd February last.

The schooner Renner stranded on the Buxey...

Category: Articles

Ole Bull

Date: August 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 217

At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .

Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...

The Kanwara

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

ALONE FROM SALCOMBE TO SKYE Appledore, Devon.—At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles west-south-west of the Westward Ho look-out.] The motor life-boat...

The Hopper No. 19

Date: Autumn 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 363

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.

Twenty minutes later the life-boat...

A Rubber Dinghy (3)

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 5.55 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a resident of Lancing had reported arubber dinghy in difficulties two to three miles to the west-south-west, and the life-boat...