Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a United States aircraft was in difficulties off Orfordness and that her pilot might have to bale...
Mayday, our national fundraising event, really seemed to capture the hearts of RNLI supporters – including some household names. Here’s why they pulled on yellow wellies to show their RNLI support …
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THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...
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Model effort: this half size replica of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham took eight months and several hundred man hours to complete and will be used to raise funds for the RNLI by being rented out to fetes and... - View image in PDF
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TOWED BY TANKER At 11.40 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coxswain was informed that a tanker had taken a drifting yacht in tow two miles east of Greystones. The two members of her crew had been taken aboard while, with the yacht in tow, the...
JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Light-vessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong S.W. wind...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—The local fishing fleet put to sea at about 5 A.M. on the 28th October, 1937, in fair weather. By 9 A.M. a moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain, and an hour later the harbour entrance...
(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...
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RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—On the 1st February, at 10.40 p.m., during a fresh breeze from S.E., signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. On the Lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeding to her, it was ascertained that a large flare...
THE ninety-fourth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 26th April, 1918, at 3 P.M. The Right Hon.
H. H. Asquith, KG., M.P., presided, and...
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