A message was received by the honorary secretary of Bembridge lifeboat station on Saturday, July 30, to say that an engine fire, now extinguished, had caused complete steering loss on a 48' ketch on passage from Poole to Le Havre. A... - View image in PDF
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IN 1946 flag days were held by 808 of the Institution's branches, and 7,919,000 people contributed. This was over two million more than before the war, but three million fewer than in the record year of 1944. The sum contributed in these...
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Workington, Cumberland.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1957, it was learnt that the fishing boat Ruby, which had taken two Trinity House engineers out to the South Workington buoy, was adrift near the...
Late on the aflernocn of August 8, the Needles Coastguard alerted the Search ami Rescue Flight, HMS Daedalus, that a boat was in difficulties in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight. An aircraft was scrambled to go to the scene. However, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
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WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...
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On the morning of the 30th October a message was received from Kinnaird Head that a small boat between Cairnbulg and Rattray appeared to be in difficulties.
A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and...
NOVEMBER 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 4s.. 6d.
, THE LifE-BOAT JOURNAL.] Foundering of the Australian Screw Steamer, " London," in the Bay of Biscay, on the 11th of January. 1866.
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In May, 1972, Princess Anne visited the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat station where she met Coxswain Thomas Cocking who two months later dived for the boy described in the report on this page.
by courtesy of Studio St. Ives... - View image in PDF
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MAY 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
The life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard at about 8 P.M. that a motor vessel was in difficulties about a mile to the S.S.E.
The weather was fine, but the sea was...