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The Sail Training Ship Malcolm Miller
Sick watch-leader evacuated from sail training ship WHILE St Helier's Tyne was away for engine repairs (see story page 4) the relief Waveney Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse I! was involved in a medical evacuation from the 130ft sail...
Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o rm F o r c e Action stations As technology continually improves, so too does the RNLI's ability to save lives at sea.
But every improvement comes at a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
Craigievar
TRAWLER AGROUND At 8.35 a.m. on 8th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the trawler Craigievar of Aberdeen was aground at Red Head, Eday. At 8.55 the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings in...
The Motor Drifter Bezaleel
At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.
breeze was blowing with a heavy...
The Recent Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea
THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
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Handing Over Ceremony:
Handing over ceremony: Caterham and District branch handed over a 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat to Newhaven lifeboat station at Timber Hill recreation ground, Caterham on Saturday December 29, 1984. The lifeboat was funded out of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
A Life-Boat Song
WE wish to draw the attention of all readers of The Life-boat to a song called " The Life-boatman," the words and music of which have been written by Mr. Louis Drakeford. This song is being published, under the auspices of the...
Category: Articles
Arbroath Memorial
A BRONZE plaque has been erected in the storm wall of the fish quay at Arbroath harbour to commemorate the disaster in which six members of the crew of the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay lost their lives on the 27th of October,...
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