DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was aground on Corton Sands and in need of immediate...
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...
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On instruction from the coxswain and second coxswain, the crew of Southsea lifeboat launch by pulling on the haul-off warp. This was a rope which was attached to an anchor offshore, allowing the lifeboat to be hauled out through the surf... - View image in PDF
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DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—At daybreak on the 29th January the Lizzie Male, of Padstow, bound from Swansea to Fecamp, was observed riding at anchor, dismasted, and with a distress signal flying. She was off Towan Head, four miles from the Life-boat...
'Larry', a Suffolk crossed with a Llyn sheep, has been brought up by the Moelfre, Anglesey, lifeboat guild as a regular collector. - View image in PDF
He was born in 1971.. - View image in PDF
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Lottery winner David Penn (centre) enjoys his visit to West Mersea lifeboat station, with Deputy Launching Authorities Ian Crossley (left) and Jeremy Dumas (right).
Photo: Nigel Brown Lottery winner David Penn (centre).<... - View image in PDF
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt- are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Iba, minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a mtm heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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At Poole on Tuesday July 12 The Duke of Atholl (r) presented a framed letter of thanks to Mr Colin Ganderton, managing director of J. John Masters, which, celebrating its centenary, has given more than £54,000 to the RNLI. The Duke had... - View image in PDF
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Easing in between the bow and stern waves of Yarmouth's 52ft Artin to run alongside at about 14 knots: a demanding exercise which is invaluable in training the helmsman to steer with one hand only, leaving the other for the... - View image in PDF
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