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Orient

Date: August 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 117

RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.— A rocket was fired from a vessel near Rhoscolyn Landmark early on the morning of the 7th March. The weather was foggy, and a heavy sea was running, the wind being S.W. The Thomas lAngham Life-boat proceeded to her...

Berna

Date: November 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 174

VALENTIA, Co. KERRY.—On the morning of the 13th January the Life-boat Crosby Leonard was launched and proceeded to the barque Berna, of Drammen, bound from Jamaica for Havre with a cargo of logwood. The vessel, which was about a mile S. of...

Two Fishing Boats

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 14th September the William Sugden Life-boat was despatched to the assistance of two fishing-boats which had been overtaken when on the lee side of Calf Island by a gale from the north-west and a heavy sea,...

Fishing Boats (3)

Date: November 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 166

MONTROSE.—On the 3rd May, the Lifeboat Augusta was again launched to the assistance of fishing boats which were in danger. Two French fishing boats and eight other boats were seen in the offing while a strong gale from the E.N.E. was blowing...

Three Fishing Vessels

Date: February 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 187

PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—While a tremendous gale of wind was blowing from N.W. on the morning of the 16th June the Life-boat MayJiew Medwin was launched to the assistance of three fishing vessels which were attempting to return to the harbour. The...

Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer

Date: May 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 294

Awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution for the services to the Greek steamer " Pyrin " and the Swedish steamer " Fernebo," on 9th January, 1917. Awarded the Second Service Clasp to his Gold Medal for the service to the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Glide

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

The Life-boat Thomas McCunn was summoned on the morning of the 5th November to the assistance of a vessel in distress and wanting help off Drummore. The boat was transported on her carriage to the vicinity of the distressed vessel and...

Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...

Category: Obituaries

Fishing Cobles

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

While the Sunderland Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon was - out on exercise on the afternoon of 30th March, signals of dis- tress were seen from the fishing coble D.C.M., of Sunderland, about one and a half miles east of Roker. On reaching the...

Widow of a Bowman

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...