Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1966, the honorary medical adviser requested the services of the lifeboat to convey him to attend a sick man aboard the Russian vessel Alatyrles. At 3.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...
Before the crowds assembled: view across the harbour to the lifeboat house and slipway. On show were the* Whitby pulling lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, ait Atlantic 21 and a D class 1LB.. - View image in PDF
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Left to risht, Mr. George F. Shee. M.A. (Secretary of the Institution), Mrs. Sim, Second-Coxswain James Sim. - View image in PDF
of Fraserbursh, Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E.. R.N. (Chief Inspector of Life-boats).. - View image in PDF
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Members of Warwick guild were well wrapped up during a recent Victorian evening held in the town. Selling 20th century RNLI gifts in 19th century garb are (I to r) Ann Fowkes, Peggy Stuart and Pam Neeves, obviously enjoying themselves. The... - View image in PDF
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The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...
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AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...
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FEBRUARY 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor boat Stephen Harding, of Caldy Island, was crossing to the mainland, she had trouble with her propeller shaft and had to anchor about a mile and a half south-west of...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help eight and a half miles west-north-west of St.
Ives Head. Five minutes...
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.<...