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Stranraer:

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Returning from Service

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

The Whitby motor life-boat on 23rd January, 1939. A moment after this photograph was taken the sea which is breaking over her stern completely enveloped her, and the onlookers thought that she had gone right under. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (15)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....

Roaming

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Arklow, Co. Wicklow— On the 28th November, 1938, the trawler Roaming, of Arklow, with a crew of three, lost her rudder while fishing in Courtown Bay. She made for Arklow with the flood tide, using trawl boards for steering, and sending up...

Pica

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

The RNLI's Rescue Survey - where people who have been rescued are given the opportunity to comment on the circumstances - is producing useful information both for the lifeboat service and for passing on as part of the Sea Safety...

A Ship’s Boat (5)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 25TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.

At 11.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a boat could be seen drifting about 3 miles N.E. of the coastguard station. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a...

Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd Branch

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Don Moore and Bill James from Pontypridd branch (pictured left in RNLI jackets) went on a 'sponsored spirit sprint' to Jamesons whisky distillery in the Irish Republic - raising over £1,000 for the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Darlwin (2)

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...

Darlwin (3)

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...

Experimental R/T Sets for IRBS

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Nine inshore rescue boats are being fitted experimentally with very high frequency radio telephones. The boats selected are stationed at Bangor, Berwick- upon-Tweed, Bridlington, Eastney, Holyhead, The Mumbles, Southend-on- Sea, Torbay and...

Category: Articles