Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...
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Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....
MARCH 29TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer was reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft, fifteen miles S.E. of Flamborough Head, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 7s. 6d..
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...
SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...
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Dover, Kent.—At 7.34 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard reported that the motor boat Ariel needed help near the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 7.51 in a very rough sea....
Above. Enmskillen lifeboat station's Atlantic 21 takes to the water. - View image in PDF
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During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
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