The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
A NUMBER of important developments took pJace during the late summer of 1963 in the process, which is a con- tinuous and unending one, of moderniz- ing and improving the life-boat fleet.
A decision was taken to install...
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The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
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14-year-old Will and his mum carolyne are glad to be reunited Photo: RNLI/Eleanor Driscoll. - View image in PDF
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Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
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A Non-self-righting Motor Life-boat of the Watson type (45 ft by 12 ft. 6 in.}. Fitted with a Tylor engine developing 60 B.H.P.. - View image in PDF
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