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Border Falcon

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Penlee, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th December, 1961, the port medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a seventeen- year-old apprentice on board the tanker Border Falcon of Newcastle was ill and...

Harbours of Refuge

Date: February 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 127

The important question of providing harbours of refuge on exposed parts of the coast, where natural harbours are not to be found, to which merchant vessels and fishing-boats could ran for safety in gales of wind, has once more cropped up,...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

From an engraving by J. H. Kernot of a drawing by W. Daniel], R.A., which appeared in The English Annual for 1837..

Category: Drawings

List of Donations and Annual Subscriptions

Date: April 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 40

To view click 'View original layout'

Category: Donations

Helping a Sick Soldier

Date: June 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 16

The New Brighton life-boat carried out a very difficult service when, in a -rough sea, she brought a sick soldier ashore from a fort. He had to be lowered into the life-boat, lashed to his stretcher, while she was in violent motion all the...

Category: Articles

the Sarah Ann, Sarah Brigham, and Eventide

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1949, it was decided that the life-boat should put out to stand by three local fishing cobles, the Sarah Ann, Sarah Brigham, and Eventide, which had been...

Launching a Life-Boat Is Not Always As Easy As It Looks. When the Flamborough Life-Boat Was Launched to Help a Boat on 6Th January 1968 She Ran Into a Rain Gulley

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

Launching a life-boat is not always as easy as it looks. When the Flamborough life-boat was launched to help a boat on 6th January 1968, she ran into a rain gulley. Here the launchers are shown digging a trench to divert the water..View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Brian Miles Director of the Rnli

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S Pavlos

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.20 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pavlos of Beirut, which was on passage from Bremen to Greece, that she had...

The S.S. St. Patrick

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...