A voluntary service In NEWS POINT on page 41 of your autumn 1986 issue, you state that a majority of those questioned in a recent public opinion survey, believe that the Government should fund the lifeboat service, if not entirely, at least...
Category: Correspondence
YACHT FOUND CLOSE INSHORE UNDER CLIFF Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the morning of the 22nd October, 1962, a yacht was seen close inshore under the cliffs between Hastings and Ecclesbourne Glen. There was a light eastsouth- east breeze and...
A dismasted yacht being seen off the North Foreland while a moderate gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 5th June, the Life-boat Frances Forbet Barton was launched at 5 P.M., and on reaching the vessel found she was the yawl...
LIFE-BOAT'S FORTUNATE SOCIAL APPEARANCE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was attending the Clacton-on-Sea sailing club regatta on Sunday the 25th August, 1963. She left the slipway at 11.50 a.m. and lay off the...
The motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 19th September, during a whole S.W. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the yacht Kirsty, of Ayr. The yacht was being used by Gaumont British Picture...
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
Category: Articles
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is indubitably not a, romance, but one of hard practical fact. The Institution has nought to do with " Dreamland," but its mission is, from our rugged and storm-beaten shores, to...
Category: Songs
Intelligence was re- ceived here on the 13th November, that a brigantine was in a very dangerous posi- tion near Carmarthen Pier and the Cefn Sidan Sands, and she was afterwards seen to be heading northwards, and to be near the breakers. The...
Injured seaman A TANKER, La Quinta, approaching Salcombe bound for Liverpool with a member of her crew seriously injured was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1157 on Saturday, 21 May. A...
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...