Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...
TOWED TO GORLESTON Culler-coats, Northumberland. At 7.15 p.m. on lyth November, 1963, a message was received from the coastguard by the new Cullercoats life-boat, the Sir James Knott, whilst on passage to her station from Cowes, Isle of...
Crews and supporters from Cumbrian lifeboat stations preparing to leave Barrow lifeboat station for their ride to Silloth.. - View image in PDF
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Short but effective service by D class saves fiveThe RNLFs Chief of Operations has written to the crew of Burry Port's D class inflatable lifeboatcommending the quick, positive thinking by the helmsman, good seamanship and boat handling...
BELOW will be found particulars of the services of foreign life-boat societies to British vessels during 1933 and the present figures of their fleets.
Denmark.
The Danish life-boat service did not go out...
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Mersey in heavy breakers and backwash only yards from stone sea wall Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs was involved in attempts to save a woman who had been swept into the sea at Scarborough on...
CHRISTMAS was a busy time for the life-boat service. On Christmas Eve the motor life-boats at St. Abbs (Ber- wickshire), Blyth (Northumberland), Sunderland (Durham) and Falmouth (Cornwall) were all launched on service, and the motor...
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Torbay, Devon. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 19th of December, 1959, a local fisherman called at the coxswain's house to report that a 24-feet crab-boat, which had left harbour at two o'clock, had not returned. At 10.5 the...
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel
On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...
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