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Two Danish Motor Fishing Vessels, The Mary Iversen and The Gadanus

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MAY 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.

At 11.52 in the morning the coastguard reported two Danish motor fishing vessels, the Mary Iversen and the Gadanus, in difficulties on the Inner Middle Sandbank.

A...

The Passage of the Motor Life-Boat "Dunleary" from Cowes to Kingstown

Date: February 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 268

By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.

THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.

Many'encounter...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

The same life-boat saved the crew of 15 men of the S. S. Harmonia, of Hamburgh, which became a total wreck on a sand bank near Brancaster.

Above: Ian Venner

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Nerves of steel

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?

Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Work Across the Channel

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: August 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 105

XXVII.—DUNDALK.

Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.

THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...

Category: Articles

Our Inland Branches

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

THE question may be asked, what hare the com- munities living incur large commercial centres, and the large inland towns of the United King- dom, in common with the work of the life-saving apparatus on the sea coast ? Why should they be...

Category: Branches

Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.

September Meeting.

Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the...

Category: Services

News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1937

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

1st February to 30th April, 1937.

Greater London.

BARNEHURST.—Bridge and whist drive.

Address by the district organising secretary.

BEXLEY HEATH.—Whist drive.

Category: Branches