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Wairakei II and Beetle

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Margate, Kent. — At 4.41 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that two yachts appeared to be ashore on Margate sands some four and a half miles from Margate pier. The life- boat North Foreland (Civil...

Saro I

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 12.38 a.m. on 24th May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor launch Saro I, with three people on board, had broken down two miles south of Ramsey Island. The life-boat Joseph...

New RNLI award

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

Lifeguards Nick Dowrick, Gareth Howarth, Tom Burgess and Emma Williams are to be presented with the inaugural Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award this Summer.

The new annual award is for the most meritorious rescue by RNLI...

Category: Articles

Volunteer

Date: August 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 185

PENMON.—On the 6th January, 1897, the schooner Volunteer, of Dublin, laden with cement and matches, from London for Whitehaven, was observed aground on the rocks off Penmon, having dragged her anchors. A strong gale was blowing from the S.E....

An Aeroplane

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

29th July. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but the life- boat found nothing.—Rewards, £15 17s..

Progressive

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At one in the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Progressive, of Filey, had been at sea since dawn and anxiety was felt for the safety of her crew of six. The seas were...

Tenby Life-Boathouse

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

The Tenby life-boat rescued seven men from the St. Gowan lightvessel in a full gale (see page 592). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Swedish "Plaque of Merit"

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Presented to the Institution by the Swedish Life-boat Society. - View image in PDF

(See page 334).. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Two Cobles

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

COBLES ESCORTED INTO TWO HARBOURS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 8.52 on the morning of the 28th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there were two cobles at sea and the weather was gradually becoming worse. The...

K.N.

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

YACHT AND THREE TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.18 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that the yacht K.N. was firing distress signals three quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate...