At about 9.40 A.M. on llth February, during a S. by W. gale with a heavy sea, a barque was observed about three miles S.S.E. of Newlyn pierhead, running dead before the wind and right in on the land. As it was obvious that unless the master...
When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …
In 2012, two men...
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FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...
Thanks of Institution on Vellum The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement: MR. CHARLES H. ASH, Appledore.
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Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...
Early on the morning of the 17th January several local herring boats put off to fish in the bay. Later heavy S.W.
squalls sprang up, with a rough sea and rain. It was reported that some of the boats were in danger, and the...
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the...
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
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