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Scarborough Life-Boat In a Rough Sea
Escorting in a fishing boat on March 7th, 1952 (See page 367). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
Category: Articles
The Irish Sea Fisheries Trawler Naoim Cait
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...
A Long Wade Through a Winter Sea
An unusual rescue by a Margate life-boatman (See page 415). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Lancashire Coast, of Liverpool (1)
MARCH 2 6TH. - TOBERMORY, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.30 in the morning the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a ship was in difficulties and making water six miles south-south-east of Ardnamurchan Light. The Tobermory motor life-boat Sir...
List of Legacies Left to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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1825. JOHN HENRY HECKER, Esq., Finsbury Square 1,000 0 0 1830. WILLIAM PRIOR, Esq., Herne Hill, Camberwell 1,827 14 8 1830. WILLIAM WALCOT, Esq., Oundle, Northamptonshire 50 0 0 1832. Mrs. DUPPA,...
Category: Donations
Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
An American Flying Fortress
AUGUST 5TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.10 A.M. information was received from the resident naval officer at Berwick that an aeroplane was down in the sea off Berwick high lighthouse.
She was an American...
Ada
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.
The life...