Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21 was launched on May 16 to bring back a diver with a badly cut head who had been injured while working on the wrecked oil tanker Eleni V. While Helmsman Michael Mitchell set course for the ILB station,... - View image in PDF
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THURSDAY, 2nd May, 1872. His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.C., President of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
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Lifeboat called to mystery grounding Lerwick - Scotland North Division Lerwick's Arun class Soldian is pictured preparing to come alongside the oil rig standby vessel Seaborne Intrepid following a mysterious grounding on 6 July 1987.<...
CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...
THURSDAY, 1st Oct., 1874 -. ; THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of One previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Dover, Kent.—At 8.47 on the even- ing of the 24th of April, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station through the Dungeness pilot cutter that the S.S. Markab N., of...
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
(Left) A dramatic view of Kaskelot as she rolls heavily in the severe conditions at 0700. The lights of the tug Avon Goch are visible to her right. - View image in PDF
(Photo 2nd Mechanic John Payne, Moelfre lifeboat). - View image in PDF
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