LIFEBOAT SERVICES AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON W50: Aug 20, Oct 10 and 18 D class Oct 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 19, 25, Sept 3 and 7 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2,12 (twice), 15 Sept 4...
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The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
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Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
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NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...
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THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
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