JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
— At 5.30 P.M. on 25th September it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that the little fishing smack Dobell, of Carnarvon, was out in Barmouth Bay and was making for port, the weather having suddenly become squally and boisterous, and...
On 9th July, 1968, the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent, using radar, found a stranded ferry in dense fog and took off and landed 126 passengers and a dog in one go.. - View image in PDF
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At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 280 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 281 Life-boat Stations...
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AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Barry Dock No. 2 lifeboat launched on September 27,1975, to help Storm Eagle, a yacht being driven ashore by a strong south-westerly gale. She got a line aboard just as the yacht's anchor rope parted and towed her, with her three crew,... - View image in PDF
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'STICK WITH IT' Mr. Peter W. Derham, assistant operational secretary of the Mudeford IRB, told a public meeting of the Christchurch, Hants, branch of the R.N.L.I. that a 'cardinal sin' of the sea was for anyone to leave their...
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Very early on the morning of the 4th January, a vessel was seen on the Dogger Bank, off this coast, on which a rough sea was then breaking.
As soon as possible the smaller of the two Life-boats on this station, the Civil...