On the night of the 18th January signals of distress were seen in the vicinity of the Shering- ham Shoal, and the Life-boat Louisa Heart-well was launched as soon as her crew could be assembled. A very heavy sea was running, and...
Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
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Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity F was on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
Coaster capsized A CARGO VESSEL, Nimrod, with a list to starboard and requiring urgent assistance was reported to the honorary secretary of Cromer lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0358 on Monday November 14, 1977. Her position was given...
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...
THE Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal to Mr. Hugh MacKay, Senr., of Hilton, on the north-east coast of Rossshire on the Moray Firth, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to four other men for their gallantry in attempting to save a...
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Caiiter, and Great Yarmouth and Gorlet- ton.Norf oik.—At 7.55 in the morningof the 2nd of April, 1949, the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned to the Caister life-boat station information, received from Lloyd's agents, that the motor...
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 Including Bronze Medal and Vellum services Blackpool Illuminated 16 Jon Jones looks at the RNLI's latest Visitor Centre and the new lifeboat...
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a German aeroplane had bombed the Out Skerries Lighthouse, that one of the people on the lighthouse had been wounded, and that...