Angle, Pembrokeshire.—18th September, 1939. At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank justafter the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched in the...
Since June of last year the Institution has received seven gifts from a church in Malta, sent by a regimental sergeant major of the Royal Artillery. In sending the fourth gift he wrote that it was part of the collection at a harvest festival...
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SPITHEAD, TUESDAY, JUNE 28: When her Majesty The Queen, aboard HMY Britannia, reviewed the Fleet as part of the celebrations marking her Silver Jubilee, three lifeboats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution were proud to take their...
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Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 20th October, the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) pre- sided at the presentation of the...
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Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
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WHITBY'S DANGEROUS BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 5.30 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, seven fishing boats put to sea in moderate weather. By nine o'clock a strong northerly wind was blowing, the sea was rough, and the...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 9.6 on the night of the 15th of September, 1957, the Foreland coastguard passed on a report that red flares had been seen on the outer boom near Horse Sand fort. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 9.18 in a...
Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.
At 3.40 the life-boat William and...
FITTER PUT ABOARD MOTOR TRAWLER Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th November, 1962, a message was received that the motor trawler Heather George, of Swansea, had broken down and had anchored half a...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...