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Boy John

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Wells, Norfolk. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretarythat a yacht was in distress off Blakeney.

There was a moderate west-south- westerly wind and a smooth sea...

A Year on the front line

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.

RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: February 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 297

Thursday, 21st June, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Passed a special Vote of Thanks to H.R.H.

PRINCE GEORGE for graciously visiting the Orkney Islands in order to perform...

Category: Committee

Brighter Dawn, Cathleen and Golden Gleam

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 9.3 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1954, a man at Alnmouth reported that the fishing cobles Brighter Dawn, Cath- leen, and Golden Gleam, of Boulmer, appeared to be in difficulties in Aln- mouth Bay. At...

Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...

The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....

Lifeboat Services

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...

Category: Services

An All-Night Service at Selsey

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...

Category: Services

Emetic of Dunmore

Date: February 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 79

The yacht Emetic, of Dunmore East, County Waterford, while on a cruise to Cork from that port, was compelled by stress of weather to put into Dungarvan on the 27th September.

On the following day it blew a strong gale from...

Isabel

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

At about 9.15 A.M.

on 3rd April the Coxswain saw a vessel flying signals to the N.N.E. of the Tongue Light Vessel. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth, but as it was thought that help was needed the Motor...