OCTOBER 4TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. A steamer had gone aground north of Rudha Hunish, Skye, but she got off without help and went on her way.- Rewards, £7 9s. 3d..
Rowland Hill's painting in the Whilby Art Gallery of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla on October 30, 1914, when the RNLI made desperate efforts to rescue patients and nurses..
Category: Drawings
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE’ AT CLOUGHEY JUNE 17TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. The S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao, had gone aground on Butter Pladdy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party...
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Category: Articles
The RNLI's history is full of dramatic twists and turns – and Alan Tyson's mission to weave them into a play is an interesting yarn in itself
‘Now hear ye all of this, good men of Bamburgh,’ shouted the cloaked man...
Category: Articles
SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...
Category: Services
UNSEATED THEN TREATED At 7.30 p.m. on 9th January, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young woman who had fallen from her bicycle needed hospital treatment. As no other boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion...
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AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
Category: Services
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.37 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of a freak storm a number of craft participating in the Conway yacht club regatta required...