West Division Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two...
Category: Services
Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
IN the early summer of 1962 there were an exceptional number of life-boat exhibitions in various parts of the country, ranging from the opening of a new display centre at Exmouth to a major historical exhibition at Bradford; from the Irish...
Category: Articles
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
Category: Medals
THE VARIETY OF SERVICES which modern lifeboat crews may be called upon to perform were clearly illustrated by awards made during the period under review in this number of THE LIFEBOAT.
On one occasion the West Mersea...
Category: Articles
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely ty Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1890, His Grace The DUKE OF FIFE, K.T., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
MR. C. R. BENSTEAD in Shallow Waters (Robert Hale, 21/-), has produced an engaging, lustily written account of almost anything which may happen and has happened in the coastal waters of Britain. His range is extensive.
On...
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Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
BY the death on 13th August, at the age of 79, of the Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, P.O., a Vice-President of the Institution and the Chairman of its Committee of Management for twelve years, the Life-boat Service lost a generous friend...
Category: Obituaries