POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
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MFV broken down HM COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station at 1706 on Sunday May 2, 1982, that MFV Mary had broken down and had asked for immediate help; she was about 15 miles east of the...
On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every Evinrude is precision engineered,...
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GORLESTON.—On the11th November, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat Leicester went off to a vessel which was showing signals of distress in the roads, during a heavy gale from S.W. The vessel proved to be the brig Anna Maria, of Blyth, bound from...
Shortly before 11 A.M. on the 22nd December, a telephone message was received through the Coastguard from the Kentish Knock Light-vessel, stating that there was a schooner ashore on the Sand, with a flag flying at half-mast on the mizen.<...
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord of Selsey died in May 1960 at the age of 69. He served as second coxswain from 1932 to 1936 and was coxswain from 1936 to 1952. During his last year of service he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
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On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, 1853.
THE Committee regret to have to state that the frequency of shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past twelve...
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Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed honor- ary life-governors of the Institution and pre- sented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
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