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Then and Now:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Then and now: The lifeboat house at Dun Laoghaire in the days of oar (above) and of outboard motors (right). In 1938 the boathouse ceased to be used by the RNLI and today's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat lies afloat in the harbour.

Category: Articles

Sticky situation

Date: Autumn 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 593

Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.

The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...

Category: Articles

Breeze

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—The brig Breeze, of Blyth, was observed ashore amongst the broken water off the Coastguard Station at 7.15 A.M. on the llth of March.

The Charles Sargrave Life-boat went to her assistance, some of the...

Veritas,of Antwerp

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

On the 29th January the brig Veritos, of Antwerp, was observed with .signals of dis- tress flying, near the Manacles Rocks, on the Cornish Coast, during a whole gale from W.N.W. The life-boat Western Commer- cial Traveller at once put off,...

Dorothea

Date: August 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 105

RAMSGATE. — At 9 P.M. on the 31st January, when blowing hard from the S.W., in answer to signals of distress from the Gull Lightship, the steam-tug Aid, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, proceeded to the dismasted barque Dorothea, of...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION APPEAL., SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

Patron—His Most gracious Majesty the King,—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS, K.G.

EDWARD BIRKBECK,...

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Family's Pride

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

Montrose, Angus.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 25th of August, 1953, the Usan coastguard passed on a message from a pilot that the Arbroath fishing boat Family's Pride had left Montrose under sail that afternoon, bound for Arbroath with...

None (2)

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...

New Golden Spray

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Margate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor boat New Golden Spray of Margate had developed engine trouble a mile and a half south-east of...

A Yacht (1)

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary there was a small yacht in difficulties off Sparrow Gap, Weybourne, and that there were three young men on...