At 3.50 P.M. on the 26th February a boat was seen, with a coat lashed to her mast as a signal of distress, and on further observation it was seen that the occupants were waving their hats and making other signals to show that they wanted...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and...
Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.
Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save the lives of nine survivors from...
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Meet Lifeboat Larry—or at least one of him. - View image in PDF
Mr Jewers of Winterbourne Down, Bristol, makes rocking horses like this for voting children and to dale has bv selling them made a remarkable £500 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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The West Wight guild celebrated its 25th anniversary on 9 May 1996 with a successful buffet supper at the Royal Solent Yacht Club in Yarmouth.
At the event, which was attended by almost 100 people including the president,... - View image in PDF
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During a heavy W.N.W. gale, which was experi- enced on the Lancashire coast on the 11 th December, the Life-boats were called out to the assistance of the steamer Hebe, of Bergen, bound from Norway to Preston with a cargo of wood pulp. The...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 10.5 on the night of the 22nd of June, 1954, the Kilkeel coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat Nautigel, of Warrenpoint, had capsized in Carling- ford Lough, and that three people were clinging to her. At...
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat...
November 24, 1934: an oak tree from Northumberland is planted in Battersea Park, London, in memory of Grace Darling. [The editor would be interested to know if the tree still thrives in 1985.1. - View image in PDF
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The brig Frederick William, of Guernsey, was at anchor off Sidmoutb. on the 5th of September, when the wind and sea rose; and, as she was in danger of parting from her cables, a signal of distress was hoisted. The Life-boat Hemington was...