Sixteen minutes: five children rescued 1436: SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1986: honorary secretary of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, while working in the boathouse hears Camber Coastguard on radio to Dover Coastguard requesting immediate launch of Rye'...
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
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RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats...
ON 21st January, 1937, an aeroplane, G—AELT, with two men on board, left Liverpool for Belfast at ten in the morning. She did not arrive. A southerly wind was blowing, varying from a fresh breeze to a strong gale.
The sea...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the evening of the llth of October, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from Barra to South Uist, as the air ambu- lance could not land because of tidal conditions....
The presentation which stopped the show!Eric was there on behalf of the House of Seagram to present a cheque for £10,000 to Commander F. R. H.
Swann, CBE RNVR, chairman of the Committee of Management, but he added his... - View image in PDF
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power the lifeboat of the future Designed for deep sea rescue under all conditions, this all metal lifeboat sets the pace for the future. Superbly equipped and designed, the choice of Gardner diesel engines is a fitting tribute to the...
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Fishing boat overdue THE FISHING VESSEL, Fortune Hunter, expected to arrive at Ventry, Co Kerry at 1600 on the afternoon of Saturday January 12, 1985, had still not appeared by 1930. The police telephoned the honorary secretary of Valentia...
Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...
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On the evening of the 10th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on the Brake Sands with a motor boat standing by.
A strong squally N.W. wind was blow- ing, with a very heavy sea, and it was raining. A little...