New BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. About eleven in the morning of the 2nd of August, 1944, two men in the motor fishing boat Maud, of New Brighton, were fishing six miles eastsouth- east of the Bar Lightship. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a...
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Disabled longliner towed to safety in Force 9 Gale and 20ft seasTowing a fishing vessel of virtually ten times the displacement of the lifeboat isn't easy, to do so in seas averaging 20ft high and winds up to Force 9 is more difficult...
Mrs Jill Cater and Mrs Sylvia Hillier with Brighton's new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Graham Hillier and Tony Cater at the naming ceremony on 29 September. (Photo courtesy Evening Argus, Brighton). - View image in PDF
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FROM time to time special attention has been drawn in the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL to the excellent work in life-saving done by means of Life-boats, etc., connected with the Life-boat services on the Continent and elsewhere, all of which have come...
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THE Queen's decision to name the new life-boat, The Royal British Legion Jubilee, at Henley-on- Thames on 17th July means that for the first time ever a reigning sovereign will have named one of the R.N.L.I.'s life-boats. Queen...
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ON 10th February last, the Angle, Milford Haven, Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the fishing smack Arrowvale, of Milford. The owners, Messrs.
Peter Hancock & Sons, have sent the Institution £2 2s., in...
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Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
FEBRUARY 14TH. - ABERDEEN . A t 9.35 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the assembly of the life-boat crew, as H.M. tug Attentif was reported three miles S.E. of Girdleness, with her stokehold flooded. A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing,...
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
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The narrow channels between Turkey and Greece have been busy over the past year, as desperate people attempt to cross the Aegean into Europe. More than 700 are believed to have drowned. How can the RNLI help?
Just 4 miles...
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