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A Lobster Fishing Boat

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

Lobster boat sunk THE LIGHTKEEPERS on Tory Island sent a message to the honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station at 2015 on Saturday, September 17, reporting that a half-decker lobster fishing boat had gone on the rocks. The crew of...

Graceful Lady

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

Gear Box Failure ON SUNDAY, September 16, 1973, a local fisherman at Wells, Norfolk, informed the coxswain's wife that the 54' fishing vessel Graceful Lady, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Wells, was stranded on the east side of...

Piepenhannes

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her...

Great Old Lady

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.

It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...

Category: Articles

Dilkusha

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Margate, Kent-At 8.58 p.m. on4th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted at Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 9.15 in a strong east north...

None (5)

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

27th No- vember. A search of Nore Sands was made in answer to flares, but nothing was found.—Rewards, £18 6s..

Cover Picture

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

At the annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15 Crew Member Arthur M. Hill of Largs lifeboat station received from HM the Queen Mother the silver medal awarded to him for the rescue on July 24, 1983, of a young girl trapped in the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Cabin Cruiser (1)

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

Cabin cruiser on bar THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Blyth lifeboat station was informed by Coastguard Tyne at 1440 on Sunday, August 29, 1976, that two swimmers had been swept out to sea off Cambois; a girl bather had been picked up by a...

Surf Boards

Date: Summer 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 529

Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat during a night service in severe...