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Whitby:

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

University Marine Ltd

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EHJOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable,...

Category: Advertisement

Degree

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 4.10 p.m. on 26th April, 1969, while returning from exercise in a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea, the life-boat saw a yacht sailing towards Garrison point in a dangerous position close...

A Motor Boat

Date: February 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 259

Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 13th May a telephone message was received reporting that a motor-boat was in the bay drifting sea- wards with a signal of distress flying.

As there was a strong N.N.E. breeze blowing with a...

Tansy

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 8.30 in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was blowing her siren and be- lieved to be on the Geddle Weirs Rocks.

A later message said that she had...

Oak Leaves

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.20 on the evening of the llth of November, 1959, the coxswain received a message from a Wexford fish merchant that the fishing boat Oak Leaves had not returned to Wexford. When last seen near Blackwater...

A Rowing Dinghy

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Walton and Frinton, Essex.— About 12.30 in the afternoon, on the 2nd of September, 1950, the Walton-on-the- Naze Coastguard telephoned that the crew of a rowing dinghy seemed to be in difficulties and drifting out to...

Jessie

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

MEVAGISSEY, CORNWALL.—The sloop Jessie, of and for Truro, from Plymouth, with a general cargo, showed signals of distress on the evening of the 10th October.

The Life-boat John Arthur put off to her assistance at 7.30 and...

Inaugural Ceremonies: Isle of Man

Date: October 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 307

THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.

Category: Inaugurations

Thetis

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

The Licensed Victualler life-boat at Hunstanton saved the crew of 16 men of the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg, which had stranded on the Wool Pack Sand, about seven miles from Hunstanton.