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Blenheim

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 8.26 in the morning of the 19th of October, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had anchor- ed half a mile off shore in Rackwick Bay and was blowing her siren. At 8.50 the life-boat...

Eilen

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

During a whole N.E. gale with a very heavy and broken sea a fishing boat came into Scrabster, on the 15th May, and reported that the motor fishing boat Eilen, of Wick, was in a dangerous position to the west of Ruff of...

Pan

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norwegian vessel Pan had engine trouble six miles south-east of Dun- cansby Head and needed help imme- diately. The life-boat City...

Buahari

Date: March 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 403

MOTOR CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat was burning red flares three quarters of a mile off Jay wick. The life-boat Sir...

Two Intrepid Travellers John Ford and Melvyn Webster Made a 1000 Mile Dash Last October from St.Helier Jersey to Aith Shetland and Raised £2250 for the Rnli

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.

First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fair Festina

Date: Spring 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 472

Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.

There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...

None (2)

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Inflatable searches in 'huge' surf on Cornish coastBude's D class lifeboat often has to launch through heavy surf, but a service on 3 July in exceptional conditions has brought the helmsman Paddy Frost and crew members Jonathan...

Notes of the Quarter

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...

Category: Articles

John

Date: May 1916

Volume: 23

Issue: 260

Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.

by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...

The S.S. Celt

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that a "Mayday" distress message had been received from the S.S. Celt, of Glasgow, ten miles south of St. Bees Head....