Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
Bare knuckle fight When Adrian, Duncan and Craig decided to enter a stretch of notoriously treacherous water, they knew they were risking their own lives It was Sam on Sunday 16 October 2005 when the Coastguard called Bridlington lifeboat...
Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer— from the painting by T. C. Dugdale, A.R.A., which hangs in the R.N.L.I. headquarters in London..
Category: Drawings
PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate...
Launches 113. Lives rescued 119.
AUGUST 1ST. - BARRA ISLAND , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night...
Category: Services
About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...
The fishwives of Cullercoats last year collected £259. One fishwife, Mrs.
B. Mattison, alone collected over £258 of that total, a record sum for one collector; and the Institution has since had £ig from the R...
Category: Articles
RAMSGATE, KENT—On the 16th March at 1.20 A.M. a message was received from the Coastguard that the Gull Lightship was exhibiting signals of distress. The Life-boat Bradford was at once ordered out and proceeded in the direction indicated. The...
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
On the 6th December the brig Champion, of Shoreham, was observed in the direc- tion of the Gorton Sand during a N.E.
gale, with a heavy sea. The Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat put off to her assistance, and found that she was...