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Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

LIFEBOATMAN ALONE ABOARD PILOT BOAT PLUCKS CREW TO SAFETY IN SEVERE GALE Three rescued from tug after night collision with coaster Shane Coleman, Second Coxswain/Mechanic of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal...

Category: Services

December

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.

DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...

Category: Services

Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts

Date: July 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 432

DECEMBER No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock...

Category: Services

Three of the 17 Men to Win Medals for Gallantry on Service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre (Gold) Lt Commander Harold Harvey (Gold) and Coxsw

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

Three of the 17 men to win medals for gallantry on service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre gold), Lt. Commander Harold Harvey (gold), and Coxswain Thomas Alcock of Holy head silver).

photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

October (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.

Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...

Category: Services

A Night on the Goodwin Sands

Date: August 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 141

ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which resulted in the loss of a Norwegian brig, The Auguste Herman Francke, with six hands out of a crew of seven all told.

All day on the 20th a...

Category: Articles

Sea Cities of the Future

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

OFFSHORE cities, each with a population of 30,000 or more, and providing all the facilities and amenities of land-based ones, seem like a fantasy from science fiction, yet they could become a reality in a matter of...

Category: Articles

A Tubular Life-Boat

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

The " Caroline Richardson " stationed at Rhyl from 1896 to 1939. She was the third and last of this type, which was designed in 1850. All three were at Rhyl. This type had a double hull, consisting of two floats, meeting at each... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Aeroplane (174)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 15TH. - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.

A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards : Rhyl...

The Loss of the Steam-Ship 'London'

Date: July 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 61

A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...

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