BOYS HAULED UP CLIFF BY COASTGUARD St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Pen Cwm Bach. Further...
Crew member swims to stranded yachtWells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
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Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
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In the year 1854 the various Acts of Parliament relating to Merchant Ship- ping and Navigation which, from time to time from the reign of Queen Elizabeth, had been enacted, were, for the most part, repealed and consolidated in a new Act...
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Difficult launch A REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD that a small fishing vessel was in trouble in the Dee estuary was received by Hoylake lifeboat station at 1050 on the morning of Monday March 24, 1986. A north-north-westerly force 8 gale,...
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
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JAN. 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, CO. DUR.
HAM. At about 5.30 P.M. a message was received from the South Docks that a vessel close to the shore was burning red flares. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and snow showers....
Mrs. R. M. Reed arriving on Cromer pier for the life-boat naming ceremony. With her is Coxswain Henry 'Shrimp' Davies and members of the life-boat crew.. - View image in PDF
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Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...
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