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Darlwin

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

COXSWAIN FRANK A. BLOOM, of the Walton and Frinton life-boat Edian Courtauld. He was appointed bowman in January, 1947, second coxswain in January, 1952, and coxswain in September, 1964. His most recent award was a bronze medal for his part... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Naval Lynx Helicopter

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Helicopter tragedy A Naval Lynx helicopter, taking part in a search and rescue operation off Lizard Point in Cornwall, disappeared on 9 December 2004. The search involved various German, French and British Naval vessels and Falmouth lifeboat...

Cromer Life-Boat Returns After Search for Airman

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

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Category: Photographs

Ceremonies

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

A new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat which will serve in the relief fleet, was named and dedicated at the Institution's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, East Cowes on 25 November 1992.

The cost of the lifeboat had been met from a...

Category: Inaugurations

Ida, of Glasgow

Date: August 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 105

BRIGHTON.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th January, when it was blowing hard from S. by E., the barque Ida, of Glasgow, bound from Havre to Pensacola, drove ashore on the beach at this town. A communication was established with the rocket...

Fishing Cobles

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1959, it was decided that the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted should launch to escort several local fishing cobles, which were returning to harbour in rapidly worsening...

Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1959 has been won by Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre for the rescue of the crew of the coaster Hindlea, which went aground in a hurricane on the...

Category: Awards

May (1)

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

EMPTY ROWING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the morning of the llth June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting a mile and a half north-north-east of Orlock. The life-boat...

Zerobe

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

At 3.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1967, information was received that the yacht Zerobe, with her sails gone, was in tow nine miles south east of Southwold. Thetow line had parted twice. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 4.40...