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Scene 4

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

The rescue. The two men of the smack can be seen in the rigging. - View image in PDF

Photographs reproduced ty courtesy of H. Jenkins, Lowestoft, (For a full account of the service see page 491.). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A German Three Masted Schooner

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

At 10.30 P.M., on the 26th May, distress signals were | reported from the Princess Light-vessel, and the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet l was launched and proceeded to her.

There they learnt that a vessel...

Crew Members Ian Leask

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Crew Members Ian Leask and Michaet Grant. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Eva Lena

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

PENMON.—The ketch Eva Lena, of Liverpool, laden with limestone, was seen to run aground on the Dutchman's bank during a moderate breeze from the E.N.E.

on the 28th December. She showed no signal of distress, but hearing...

Blakeney Dawn

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...

Yla Section

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...

Category: Articles

Maria Farleigh

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—The Lifeboat George Pooley was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 26th February and proceeded to the schooner Maria Farleigh, of Fowey, bound from Glasgow for Cardiff, which was in a dangerous position, embayed on a lee shore...

Catherine Latham and Sir Robert

Date: February 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 163

On. the 16th October another gale was experienced, and at 2.30 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the schooners Catherine Latham and Sir Robert, which were anchored in Moelfre Bay. Their crews, numbering in all seven men, were taken into...

Julia

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

ABERYSTWYTH.-—The Life-boat Lady Haberfield put off at about 8 A.M. on the 7th October to the aid of the Danish brig Julia, which was showing a signal of distress in the bay during a strong E.N.E.

wind. On reaching her it...

Maria

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen off Grain Spit.

At 6.45 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...