RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
Category: Services
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hon Mrs Valentine Wyndham-Quin Names Caister Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JAN. 2ND. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
At 8 P.M. the life-boat coxswain saw a flare about three miles south of Ballycotton Light.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The S.S. Innisfallen...
JANUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1 0 A.M. an explosion was heard to the north-east of the life-boat station, and the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Caister Look-out had seen aircraft diving towards the sea,...
When an experienced boater fell into the River Dart after an evening cruise with his wife and young son, it quickly dawned on him he was in grave danger
For Simon Burton, a leisurely family cruise on 24 June turned into a...
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THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..
Category: Obituaries
The Wells-Next-The-Sea ladies lifeboat guild held their annual Christmas bazaar last November which proved to be a great success, raising over £800 for Institution funds.
Charlie the lifeboatman, shown left with some... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
Category: Poetry