Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m.
on 2ist September, 1965, the honorary medical adviser informed the coxswain superintendent that the Lebanese S.S.
Areti off Spurn Point had a sick seaman on board who...
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
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above, the lifeboat in which he carried out the rescue, Charles Biggs, and her crew photographed two days after the event.. - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent. At 12.36 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Birching- ton and that a motor boat had gone to her help. The Margate Yacht Club had been...
THE MOST HON. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by the Hon. Mr. JUSTICE DARLING.
Supported by the Eight Hon. The EARL OF...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.5 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Irish Sea Fisheries trawler Naoim Cait was adrift fifteen miles south-west of Skelligs Rock.
The...
Cromer, Norfolk - At 5.27 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coxswain and motor mechanic saw distress flares from a small vessel two miles north west of the life-boathouse. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 5.35 in a light north...
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Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the Kirkwall lifeboat, with the station's new Arun Mickie Salvesen. - View image in PDF
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(Above) The simulator, ll may look like a plywood shed but inside is an exact replica of The Mumbles lifeboat cabin.. - View image in PDF
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 16th day of March, 1911, The Eight Honourable the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., G.B., in the...
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