At 2.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, when a whole S.S.E. gale was raging, a schooner, the St. Pierre of Nantes, was observed in distress. With praiseworthy rapidity the Life-boat Ryder was launched off the beach through a very heavy...
The Life-boat and steam-tug also proceeded out at 6.15 A.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Mina, of Kalmar, Sweden, bound from Shields to St. Vincent with coal, which had gone ashore on the Brake Sand during a fresh E.S.E....
Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....
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(Below) Two Girl Guide brass trefoils, presented to Eastney ILB station by 29th Portsmouth Guide Company, have been chrome plated and fitted to the console of Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II.. - View image in PDF
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Hospital ship Rohilla on the rocks of Saltwick Nab, October 30, 1914. Both Whitby No. 2 and Upgang lifeboats were hauled to Saltwick.. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Anderson aboard Keith Anderson with (I) the Duke ofAtholI and (r) Viscount Hampden. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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On the 26th October, at 9.30 A.M., the Life-boat William Tomlinson was launched to the assistance of the schooner Elizabeth, of Carlisle, which had driven ashore near Seascale, a heavy sea breaking on the beach and it blowing hard at S.S.W....
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The trawler Annie, of Brixham, while attempting to come into Padstow on the 13th February, grounded on the " Doombar." There was a heavy ground sea and strong W.S.W. gale at the time, andshe no sooner struck than...
AT half past nine on the evening of Saturday the 18th May, 1963, the Wells coastguard told the honorary secretary, Dr. E. W. Hicks, that a cabin cruiser was aground at the entrance to Blake- ney harbour.
The life-boat Cecil...
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'Again, o>n the 19th November, this valu- able Life-boat did good service when she was launched during a gale from S.S.W., to the barque Albion, of Eostock, which had gone ashore at Kirkton Head, and was happily the means of rescuing...