• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...
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Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...
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On the 6th April, at 4.30 A.M., during a moderate N.E. wind, signal guns were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded under sail to the North Sand Head and found a barque ashore on the North-east part of the...
On the night of the 20th January, the Yarmouth large life-boat went out in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the Scroby Sands. There was a strong wind blowing at the time, with heavy squalls. On arriving at the spot the...
IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...
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THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
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NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd February, the fishing-boats went out and shot their lines. At 10.30 a strong gale from the N. sprung up, rendering it difficult for the boats to haul in their...
Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
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CORK The Finnish steamer Brita had been torpedoed and abandoned by her crew fifty miles south of Cape Clear. The life-boat searched widely for the crew but could not find them and later it...