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Jewess

Date: February 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 163

CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant abont three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...

For Quiet Nights

Date: December 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 18

Four people in Leeds, two husbands and wives, sent the Instititution a pound in July 1941. It was a penny from each of them in gratitude for each night that they had had free from air-raids. They continued that thankoffering for every quiet...

Category: Articles

Mr George Wyeth

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Mr George Wyeth, honorary treasurer of Bognor Regis Branch from 1968 until the early I980's. He joined the branch committee before the second world war and was awarded a silver badge in 1976..

Category: Obituaries

Tartar

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

FLAMBOROUGH.—The Life-boat Grace and Lolly of Broad Oak went out at about 10.45 P.M., on the 23rd November, and rescued the crew, consisting of eight men, from the brig Tartar, of Salcombe, which was wrecked on the rocks off Flamborough...

Kittywake

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

OCTOBER 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.20 at night the Deal coastguard reported that two men had put out in the rowing boat Kittywake earlier in the day and had not returned.

A moderate north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...

By Courtesy of Ministry of Defence

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

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Category: Photographs

Chevereul

Date: August 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 117

CARNSORE.—On the 21st December, at 2.15 A.M., a vessel was reported to be stranded in Churchtown Bay. The Lifeboat Iris proceeded there promptly, and found the barque Chevereul, of Havre, ashore there. The wind was blowing from the S.E.,...

Mercury

Date: August 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 161

The pilot-cutter Providence arrived at Harwich on the 3rd March flying signals denoting that the Life-boat was required.

The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Life-boat in tow, promptly went out, and...

Rememberance

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

Again, on the 28th December, the Van Rook saved 8 lives from the brig Remem- brance, of Whitby, which vessel was totally lost on the Goodwin Sands. Great risk was encountered both in getting alongside and landing, and the boat received some...

Bierum

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

Hoylake, Cheshire, and Rhyl, Flintshire - At 9.25 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the shipping agent to the m.v. Bierum informed the Rhyl honorary secretary that the vessel had gone aground a quarter of a mile east of Point of Air...