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The Duke of Northumberland was the first steam, and the first steel, lifeboat. She was built by R. and H. Green of Blackball and stationed in turn at Hanvich. Holyhead and New Brighton, finally returning to Holyhead in 1897. where she... - View image in PDF

Arbroath, Angus.—On the 16th of December, 1955, the local pilot boat put off with a pilot to warn a vessel not to attempt to enter the harbour in the bad weather, but the pilot boat broke down and was towed in. At 2.30 in the afternoon the...

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M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...

On the 5th June, the schooner Mersey, of Liverpool, went on the South Bishop Rock and sank. Signals of distress were made by the light- keepers, whereupon the Life-boat Augusta proceeded out, and brought the vessel's crew of 4 men safely...

Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...

READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...

A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...