Walmer, Kent. — At 6.23 on the night of the 21st of December, 1951, a vessel was reported to be on the Goodwin Sands in Trinity Bay, and at 6.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was launched.
The weather...
Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...
Category: Services
EX-MOTOR MECHANIC THOMAS SLINEY, who for nearly 20 years served in that capacity with the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, died on 23rd October, 1966.
He was awarded the silver medal in 1936 and the bronze medal in 1943...
Category: Obituaries
This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
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WICKLOW.—A storm of terrific violence visited Wicklow and the district on the 26th February. The wind had been blowing from the S. and towards night it increased to hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and downpours of rain and...
On the night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington ILB launched to go to the yacht Pinkers ablaze in North Bay. The yacht's crew of nine had taken to their dinghy but could not propel her and both boats were drifting together with wind and tide.... - View image in PDF
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Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been driven ashore on the Great Keragh, and that a man and a woman had waded in from her. At 8.30 the...
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...
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'One man can launch the Atlantic in less than a minute' 'Most of our work here is out-and-grab stuff,' said Atlantic Helmsman Richard Pearce as we looked at the floating boathouse at his station in Brighton Marina, 'and...
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