Just after one in the morning of 6th Janu- ary, the' Motor Life-boat Greater London was launched in answer to flares. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. She found the motor barge Coder Idris, of Rochester, with the...
Judi Spiers, presenter of the BBC's daily programme 'Pebble Mill', drew the winning tickets of the 61st national lottery at RNLI headquarters in Poole on 30 April 1993.. - View image in PDF
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On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...
.Below right: RNLI President, the Duke of Kent, after formally naming Portrush's new Severn class lifeboat Katie Hannan. - View image in PDF
with Coxswain Robin Cardwell.. - View image in PDF
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The new Invergordon crewroom. a purpose-built shore facility adjacent to the pier, was opened on 13 June when His Grace the Duke of Atholl, convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, (pictured second left) unveiled a plaque to commemorate... - View image in PDF
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Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 29th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary sectreary that the master of the m.v. Assurity of London had had a heart attack andneeded to be brought ashore. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed with...
Lifeboats on station are usually solitary craft, but every now and again circumstances brings a group of them together. On the night of June 4 and 5, five lifeboats gathered in Brixham Harbour. Torbay's own Arun, Edward Bridges (Civil... - View image in PDF
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a French trawler in tow of another trawler appeared to be in difficulties half a mile south-east of the coast- guard station. At 11.40 the...
LIFE-RAFT RESCUE At 8.50 a.m. on 16th January, 1971, the honorary secretary at Beaumaris, Anglesey, learnt that a distress signal had been sighted from the dredger Hoverinsham II of Hull a quarter of a mile below Penmon lookout.
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Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of...