News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI At the Sharp End Lifeboat services - some seen through the eyes of the casualty The Annual Meetings 14 The Annual General Meeting and the Presentation of Awards were held at the Barbican...
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Rve Harbour's lifeboat house sits atop a substantial base and piles extending deep imo the sedimentary mud on the west bank of the fiver Rother. The station operates an Atlantic 75. - View image in PDF
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The RNLI’s naval engineers are developing a new class of all-weather lifeboat, currently codenamed FCB2 (fast carriage boat 2). The FCB2 will replace the Mersey class lifeboat, and the first is expected on station in 2013.
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On the 9th April, during a strong easterly wind, the smack Shamrock, of Wexford, was seen to strike on the north end of the Dogger Bank, and to hoist signals of distress. The Civil Service life-boat was quickly launched, and on nearing the...
RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
AND KINGSDOWNE.—Two large vessels went on the Goodwin Sands on the 18th De- cember. They were the barque Albert, of Bremen, 750 tons, bound thence to the East Indies, and the barque India, of Shields, 700 tons, bound to that port from Quebec...
AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...
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The turning of the tide Three men were enjoying a day's angling at Aberporth when they were caught out by the biggest tide of the year. Within moments the trio were stranded on rocks, 100m from the shore ^^Despite the bad weather, many...
On the 20th October, during a heavy gale of wind from the westward, the bvvgantine Highland Mary, of that port, was driven on the Barnard Wharf Sandbank. The Fleetwood life- boat went off in tow of a steam-tug, and brought safely ashore the...
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.— The weather in early morning of the 19th February being comparatively moderate, the fishing fleet put to sea, but about 9.30 A.M. the wind increased to a whole W.S.W. gale, accompanied by a veryheavy sea. At 9.45 the...