(Above) On receipt of distress messages HM Coastguard alerts lifeboat stations, co-ordinates search and rescue operations and is the link between lifeboat and honorary secretary.. - View image in PDF
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Betty Grant celebrates her 95th birthday with David Steel (Chairman Queensferry lifeboat fundraising branch), and her daughter and son-in-law Liz and George Grubb Photo: Hamish Campbell. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
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THE general public, and especially those who live or have their business in the metropolis, have recently experienced the bewildering effects of fog on land, and will, perhaps, on that account have a sympathetic interest in what is being...
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GORLESTON.—On the afternoon of the 15th April, the smack White Rose, of Yarmouth, whilst endeavouring to enter Tarmouth Harbour, inconsequence of a heavy ground swell, and a considerable sea on the bar, ran aground on it. A yawl which went...
The schooner Major, of Lynn, ran aground at Holme on the morning of the 30th September. ^The Life-boat, Licensed Victualler, was at once despatched to the distressed vessel, and was, fortunately, the means of rescuing the crew, consisting of...
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
APRIL 13TH. - ABERDEEN. News was received that a vessel was ashore on Aberdeen beach, and at 7 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. The easterly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell with a breaking...
JULY 16TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.10 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a vessel ashore on Grassholm Island and in need of help. It had been...