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Volant

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

During a whole N.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the 12th January the St. Nicholas Light-vessel commenced to fire signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and at 7 A.M....

Contents

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 526 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...

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Sharina

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

NIGHT SEARCH IN THICK FOG Poole, Dorset. At 11.20 on the night of Wednesday the 28th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Wareham police via Poole police that red flares and SOS signals had been seen near...

Beetle Drive

Date: October 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 437

THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...

Category: Articles

Falmouth's Severn Named

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

The lifeboat crew and distinguished guests gather on thepontoon for the naming of The Will. Photo: Bnan Penning.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Thomas L. Devlin

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 9.20 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on the north side of May Island. At 9.35 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched...

A Rubber Dinghy (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched at 4.50...

La Prudence

Date: October 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 70

On the night of the 30th March the Parsee life-boat went off during a fresh wind from N.N.W. and rough weather, and saved the crew of 6 men from the schooner La Prudence, of Algiers, which was totally wrecked on Palling Beach..

William and Martha and Venture

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

ESCORTED FISHING BOATS At 8.20 a.m. on i6th November, 1965, two small fishing cobles were reported to be out in very bad weather conditions and the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 8.30 in a south-easterly gale and a rough sea. It...

Ocean Pearl

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, it was reported that the fishing boat Ocean Pearl, which had a crew of five, was in difficulties between one and two miles off Holborn Head. At 11.45 the life-boat...