The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Iba, to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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SIDMOUTH.—On the morning of the 23rd May H.M.S. Lively, with the DUKE and DUCHESS of EDINBURGH and suite on board, arrived off Sidmouth, and came into the bay, in order that his Royal Highness might land and inspect the Coastguard Station....
AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the...
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Last year, RNLI lifeboats rescued 8,313 people around our coasts (the highest number in our history), while RNLI lifeguards assisted 18,775 on more than 150 of the UK’s busiest beaches. That’s 27,088 people who are grateful for your...
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Volunteer crew members are now on stand-by 24/7 at new trial lifeboat stations at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and Union Hall, Co Cork. The RNLI has declared both stations as search and rescue assets, with Atlantic 75 inshore...
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When the general public think of RNLI volunteers, they think of crew, like me, probably a bit older, with a big thick beard!
The team at the Lifeboat asked me to introduce this issue as I have experience on the...
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THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.
It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...
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WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.
I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...
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CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
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FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...