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The S.S. Isabo

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...

Cicerone

Date: November 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 218

During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...

A Powered Craft

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Crew overboard for 35 minutes in darkness and heavy seas Michael Weeks, a crew member aboard Appledore's Tyne class all-weather lifeboat spent some 35 minutes in the water, in darkness and heavy seas, on 3 May 1994 when he was thrown...

The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

XXV.-ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLES.

The Henry Dundas, 37 feet long, 9 feet beam, 10 oars.

THIS Life-boat was stationed at St. Mary's, the capital of the Scilly Isles, in 1874. Previous to that time it...

Category: Articles

A Landing Craft

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

FILEY.—The Hollon the Second Lifeboat was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd November to the assistance of the fishing fleet, which had been overtaken by a sudden gale from the E.S.E. The Life-boat men distributed life-belts to several of the...

None (68)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

DECEMBER 23RD. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

Lights had been reported flashing on the water and it was thought that an aeroplane might be down, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £23 0s. 6d..

Kiki and Catamaran Acarus

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

Two calls in gale NEWHAVEN LIFEBOAT, the 47' Watson Kathleen Mary, was called out twice on Thursday, November 4, 1976. During the early evening HM Coastguard had been watching a yacht coming from the west, close inshore. As she turned in...

Accounts of Services by Life-boats

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JANUARY.

Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.

JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...

Category: Services

The S.S. Tolfaen

Date: February 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 151

LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...