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Royal
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 5.33 A.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands. The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell. At 5.57 A.M. the motor...
Royal
On the 3rd March in consequence of the westerly wind increasing to a gale—the sea already being high—the small fishing coble Royal, which was at 12.30 P.M.
about six miles off Newbiggin with no other vessel near her, was...
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal
OCT. 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHscene, UMBERLAND. At 5.33 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands.
The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell.
At...
Royal favour
Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...
Category: Articles
Ramsgate Royal Harbour Marina
Ramsgate Royal Harbour Marina COME AND JOIN US AT RAMSGATE * PERMANENT MOOKING CHARGES HELD AT 1996/7 LEVELS - *135 PER METRE * EXTRA DISCOrNTS 1 1 VHI I FOR ANNUAL PAYMENT AND BOATS OVER 20 METRES * GOOD ROAD e;ONNECTIONS: M25 LESS...
Category: Advertisement
Two Royal Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution recently named two new motor life-boats; one in March and one in May. The first, on March 29th, was at New Brighton, to whose station a 52-foot Barnett...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal
£ HOLYHEAD.—About 7.45 on the evening of Sunday, the 27th January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen in the outer roads burning signals of distress. The steam...
Royal opening for Cowes station
HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.
The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...
Category: Articles
Royal Albert
WEST HARTLEPOOL. — The Life-boat Rochdale proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Royal Albert, of Maldon, which was in imminent danger during a hurricane from the E.N.E. on the 28th October. The vessel's crew of five men were taken...