Thursday, 9th February, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Colonel the Hon. Harold Robson, a member of the committee of management.
Reported the receipt of the...
Category: Committee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1955, the no. 1 life-boat second cox- swain reported that the local fishing boat Progress, which had a crew of five, had not returned from the fishing grounds to the...
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
At 8.10 A.M.
on the 16th June the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the south beach. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester were assembled and the boat launched. As quickly as possible she proceeded to...
Humber lifeboat crew in 1956 when the late Captain William S. Anderson (fourth from rig/it) was the superintendent coxswain.
Standing directly by the bow is Mr Robertson Buchan, his son-in-law, who recently retired as... - View image in PDF
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AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
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(see page 393). - View image in PDF
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Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney...
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
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