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Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.

Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...

Category: Services

The Minesweeper President Briand and the S.S. Goole

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SHOREHAM HARBOUR NOVEMBER 16TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Just after one in the morning the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn went out to the help of the minesweeper President Briand. A strong south wind...

Frizzell

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

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Category: Advertisement

Notes of the Quarter

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

THE tragic loss of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat was the worst disaster in terms of number of men lost since the Mumbles life-boat capsized with the loss of the whole of her crew in 1947. It occurred on the 8th of December, 1959,...

Category: Articles

Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...

Category: Articles

Fundraising

Date: Winter 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 575

Best foot forward Hundreds of schools and businesses supported the RNLI's annual Save Our Soles day on Friday 27 January 2006.

From Sennen Cove to Shetland, from Larne to Lowestoft and from Beaumaris to Ballyglass,...

Category: Articles

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.

Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...

Category: Articles

The Fundraisers

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...

Category: Articles

Oil on Troubled Waters

Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...

Category: Articles

Don't Rock the Boat

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

THIS article appeared in The Field on 8th April and is reproduced by permission of The Field'?, editor. We consider it a most helpful, informative and balanced article, although the comment about the attitude of crews towards...

Category: Articles