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Ice, wind and snow
When two holidaymakers in a hired cruiser started sinking in sub-zero waters, there was no time to lose …
Breydon Water, an estuary in Norfolk where the Rivers Yare, Bure and Waveney converge,...
Category: Articles
Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
Maverick
Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...
This Stormy Nautical Window Display at Fiona's Fore Street Won First Prize In a Window Display Competition Organised By the Trowbridge Branch of the RNLI In March 196
This stormy nautical window display at Fiona's, Fore Street, won first prize in a window display competition organised by the Trowbridge branch of the R.N.L.I. in March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Coble Jean and Barbara
MARCH 1ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while the fishing cobles were out, the wind increased until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a rising sea. All the cobles returned - many leaving their...
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
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Clyro
— The motor life-boat Lily Glen—Glasgow was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the 14th August in response to a telephone message from Culzean Castle Maidens that the steam trawler Clyro, of Milford Haven, was ashore. A moderate W.N.W. wind was...
Gustaf E. Ruter (1)
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Gustaf E. Ruter
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...