High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
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Highly specialised Search & Rescue Craft from HALMATIC The Self-Righting 'Arun' 54' on trial Backed by over 20 years' experience in fibreglass boatbuilding, Halmatic are established leaders in the design and production of...
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The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
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DEC. 8 T H . - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 11.15 A.M. a message was received that an explosion had occurred four miles W.S.W. of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A fresh breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At 11.30 A.M. the...
FOUR new motor life-boats, two of them gifts from Scotland, were named on the Scottish coast this year, at St. Abbs, Berwickshire ; Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; Eyemouth, Berwick- shire ; and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.
St....
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High and dry Tobermory's Elizabeth Fairtie Ramsey launched three times between 620am and 5pm on 10 March 2006 to a 16m fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).
When the...
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Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...
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Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 11.38 on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a landing craft had reported a fishing vessel in need of help four miles to the southward, and at...
On the 14th January the Foreland coast watcher telephoned that a fore- and aft schooner, about three miles S.W.
of the look-out, was drifting towards Hayling Island. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — Later on the same day, 5th October, 1939, information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned...