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A Drifter

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—26th October, 1939. A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got into the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided.

The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea.—...

Marie Leach

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.45 on the night of the 13th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about one and a half miles north-east of the coast- guard station. At 8.0 the life-boat John Russell,...

Briar

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO DOCK Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, one of the keepers of Walney lighthouse told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was anchored near the Outer Bar buoy and had just released a...

Great Yarmouth Coxswain, David Mason,

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Great Yarmouth Coxswain, David Mason, recently presented the Royal Life Saving Society Bronze Medallion to 20 youngsters at Sprowston High School in Norwich.

David, a recent RNLI Bronze Medallist, attended a special... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Kajtum

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 23rd of February, 1949, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that the Swedish steamer Kajtum, of Stockholm, at anchor in Carrick Roads, Belfast Lough, was in need of a doctor, and the life-boat...

Elizabeth Taylor

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...

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Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 7 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was asked by a local doctor if the life-boat could be used to convey an injured patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other suitable boat was...

Ocean Queen

Date: November 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 114

BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the...

Awards to Honorary Workers

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

Mr. T. E. PURDY, J.P., C.C., has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institu- tion, in recognition of his long and valuable services as Honorary Secretary of the Colwyn Bay Branch, and will be presented with a copy of the Vote...

Category: Awards

Fishing Boats

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

SEVENTEEN BOATS ESCORTED OVER BAR Arbroath, Angus. During the morning of the 1st November, 1962, a southerly gale sprang up, causing very rough seas at the harbour bar. The Arbroath fishing fleet was at sea, and as the weather was...