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Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

Coxswain John Donnan, of the Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down, life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow.

Appointed coxswain in April, 1966, he had previously been second coxswain from April, 1961, to March, 1966. In 1965 the old Cloughey...

Category: Articles

Deaths

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

Deaths The following ex-coxswains have passed away in recent months: Mr. Alfred Woodford (Brooke, I.o.W.), Mr. Thomas Douglas (Holy Island), Mr. James Lethbridge (St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly), Mr. Eric Taylor (Whitby),Mr. William Parker...

Category: Obituaries

Flint Lifeboat Named Marjorie Helen

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

With the ruins of Flint Castle overlooking the proceedings, Eric Bulling handed D class lifeboat Marjorie Helen over to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and marketing on 16 November.

This was Eric's second... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (11)

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

IRB's ALSO LAUNCHED Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.45 p.m. on loth August, 1965, news came that a cafe owner at Fontigary Bay had reported a number of children were trapped on the rocks on a rising tide. The life-boat Rachel and Mary...

Nansen

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JANUARY 5TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

At 5.10 P.M. the coastguard reported distress signals a mile west of Eshaness Point, and the motor life-boat The Rankin was launched at 5.45 P.M. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a...

A Parachute

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

APRIL 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

A fisherman had reported what he believed to be a parachute coming down into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 13s..

None (23)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MAY 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Four parachutes had been reported falling into the sea, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £3 12s. 6d..

Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...

Category: Articles

A Dinghy (11)

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Dunbar, East Lothian - At 11.54 a.m. on 3Oth July, 1967, it was learnt that two children in a yellow rubber dinghy were being swept out to sea from Whitesands.

The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12 o'clock...

Epimachus, of Amsterdam

Date: July 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 45

On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...