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The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda

Date: Spring 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 444

Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...

The S.S. St Patrick

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

5th August.

S.S. St. Patrick struck a rock. Help given by another steamer.—Rewards, £9 Is..

The Prime Minister -•- and An Onion.

Date: December 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 6

A gift of two pounds has come from the recreation club of a motor works.

It was raised by the sale of a model of the Prime Minister and — an onion..

Category: Articles

A Small Boat the Nellie

Date: November 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 234

During the morning of the 26th May two men went off in their yawl, the Diano, to fish in St. Andrews Bay. A strong S.E.

gale came up about 11 A.M., and the men were unable to get their boat into harbour. As the sea was very...

Life-Boat Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

THE Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, was closed at the end of October. The Institution had its own pavilion1 where it exhibited the motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type which had been built on the...

Category: Articles

Portrait on the Cover

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Leslie Charles Pennycord, of Selsey. He has been an officer of the boat for seventeen years, four years as second-coxswain and thirteen as cox- swain..

Category: Articles

With the Little Ships at Dunkirk

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...

Category: Articles

Civil Service Life-Boat Fund

Date: August 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 149

At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...

Category: Meetings

The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Witch

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...

The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Faithful

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

SEINE-NET FISHING BOAT DRIVEN ASHORE North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.20 on the evening of the 18th June, 1963, the coxswain reported that the local seine-net fishing boat Faithful, which had a crew of six, had driven...