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The American Steamer Fort Perrot

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...

The Norwegian Fishing Vessel Vindhammer

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

Disabled longliner towed to safety in Force 9 Gale and 20ft seasTowing a fishing vessel of virtually ten times the displacement of the lifeboat isn't easy, to do so in seas averaging 20ft high and winds up to Force 9 is more difficult...

News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December

Date: February 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 305

1st October to 31st December.

Greater London.

CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on 4th November at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, by permission of the Governor and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- General the...

Category: Branches

The Barges Asphodel and Kitty

Date: July 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 350

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported that a barge was making signals of distress three miles east-north-east of the point. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil...

Star Thrower

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Yacht saved in darkness SEVERE GALE TO STORM FORCE SOUthsouth- westerly winds were blowing on the night of Sunday May 25 when a message reached the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station that a 24ft yacht with auxiliary engine, Star...

Galaxy

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

BROKEN CROSS-TREES Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.56 a.m. on igth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht in distress near Cork sands. There was a slight sea with a gentle...

Harmony

Date: November 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 254

About 9 P.M. on the 9th May the wind began to freshen from the north and quickly increased to a whole gale, causing ,a very rough sea. The fishing- boat Harmony, of Eyemouth, was at the j time lying to her nets, and found it impossible to...

A Catamaran

Date: June 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 428

Harwich, Essex - At 5.23 p.m. on 3rd February, 1969, the duty pilot informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with two people on board was adrift near Platter's buoy. The life-boat Margaret Graham slipped her moorings at 5.30 in a...

Carillion, of Cowes (1)

Date: January 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 438

RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.

At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...

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