North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9.45 on the night of the 22nd of March, 1957, a local Trinity House official called on the coxswain and asked if the life-boat would launch to bring ashore an injured man from the Longstone lighthouse,...
Early on the morning of the 2nd March. ; several local fishing boats and cobles put to sea. By 9 A.M. the sea was making fast and breaking at the pier ends ; and the river, running strongly out of the harbour, made the entrance dangerous. A...
At 7.23 p.m. 27th June, 1967, it was learned that a distress message had been received from a vessel in a position threemiles north east of Whitby. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepwonh was launched at 7.30 in a calm sea. It was one and a half...
As reported in the October, 1972, issue Of THE LIFE-BOAT, the Rev. George Waddington, formerly chaplain to the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat, has moved to Paisley and is sporting the R.N.L.I, crest on his ceremonial preaching... - View image in PDF
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IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...
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DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...
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In hurricane force winds, Ballycotton lifeboat crew launched to the aid of eight men on a lightship near Daunt Rock. 70 years on, it's a feat of courage and endurance still seen as one of the most demanding rescues in RNLI...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Gorles- ton coastguard telephoned that the steam drifter Fumerole, of Peterhead, which had been in tow of another drifter, had parted her tow...
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
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