THE Board of Trade is to be congratulated on the success of its efforts to lay before the public the " Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which have occurred on or near the Coasts of the United Kingdom " up to the latest possible...
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The Life-boat Joseph and Mary was launched from this station, at 8.30 A.M. on the 24th October, to go to the assistance of the brig Cuba, j of Abo, bound from that port to London, ! having a crew of 8 men. The vessel had I gone on shore on...
Montrose, Angus. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1958, Stonehaven radio informed the honor- ary secretary that the fishing boat Angus Rose of Montrose needed help three miles off Montrose as her propeller had been fouled by...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
The RNLI provides its volunteers with the best lifeboats, equipment and training for the job, and so it must. But sometimes, nothing is a match for the sheer ferocity of NatureWhen a lifeboat crew launch to the rescue, their own safety is...
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WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...
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IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...
Category: Medals
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
AT 1.55 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage coast- guard told the honorary secretary of the Swanage life-boat station, Mr. W.
Powell, that the tug Flying Kestrel had passed a distress message to...
Category: Services
The Coastguard officer reported at 9.15 j A.M. on the 6th May that there was a ! vessel on the Long Bank signalling for immediate assistance. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat Tom ' and Jennie despatched. There...