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Night escort ANGLE LIFEBOAT, THE 46ft 9in WATSON CLASS, Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, launched on service at2148 on the evening of Saturday May 17, 1986, after a yacht had been reported to be suffering engine problems in gale...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of...
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Wreck Chart for 1866
FOR many years past we have been in the habit of making a few remarks on the Wreck Register, prepared by the Board of Trade, and presented to Parliament and we have done so principally with the view of directing attention to the loss of life...
Category: Annual Reports
Naming Ceremonies: Lerwick and Dungeness
HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, president of the Institution, visited Shetland for the first time on Tuesday September 12, 1978, when he named Lerwick's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian. A guard was provided by A (Lovat Scouts) Company 2/51...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...
Category: Services
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At 8.25 a.m. on i ith February, 1966, the Irish Lights Office rang the honorary secretary's home to ask for the services of the life-boat Dunleary II to take two sick men off Kish light tower. As the honorary secretary had already left...
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
Linear II
Life in the old girl yet! The Robert, Beaumaris1 Watson class lifeboat bid a fine farewell during her passage back to the RNLI's Poole depot following her withdrawal from service in July.
She was called into service...
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OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...