Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...
On the 4th January, at day- light, signals of distress were observed from three vessels ashore in Abergele Bay, North Wales. The life-boat proceeded as soon as possible to the spot and rescued the crew of 4 men from the schooner Temperance...
The 60-Feet Barnett Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Above: The naming ceremony of Phyl Clare 2. - View image in PDF
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On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.
Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.
Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any... - View image in PDF
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As a reader of the Lifeboat magazine, when you book a self-catering holiday with cottages4you, you get a 5% discount and the company gives at least 5% of the purchase price to the RNLI.
Now, you can win £300 off the...
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AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy...
RHYL.—The schooner William of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Foryd, arrived in the estuary on the evening of the 12th August, but, being unable to get into the Foryd during that tide, grounded on the east bank. At low water five men went...