On the 7th November, the No. 1 Lifeboat Mark Lane was launched at about 5.15 A.M., signals of distress having been seen during a moderate gale, increasing at intervals to a strong gale, from the E.S.E., and a very heavy sea. After a long...
The trial in progress: on parallel courses about 100 yards apart, Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 drive through rough seas at about 17 knots. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Guernsey Evening Press. - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 23rd March, 1938, a message was received from Sandness that a woman on the island of Papa Stour was seriously ill and in need of a doctor. Owing to very bad weather the regular ferry service to the...
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calen- dar for next year. It is also issuing, for the first time, a Life-boat Christmas card, and we hope that readers of The Lifeboat will buy this calendar for their...
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IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
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MAY 2 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
While the auxiliary yacht Betty was on her way from Lynn to Gorleston her engine broke down. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, and as she was unable to beat round to Cromer under sail she...
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SKERRIES.—About 3 P.M. on the 16th April, the schooner Isabella, of Portmadoc, bound from London to Dundalk, was observed to part from her anchors and drive towards the rocks. A strong gale from the E.S.E. was blowing, and a heavy sea was...
JULY 28TH . - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane which had on board the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, making for Belfast, was reported as missing.
She had last been seen out at sea three miles S.S.E....
The Sumner Lifeboat Institution, New Zealand, operates an ex-RNLI 10.9m Liverpool class lifeboat, Rescue III, and a fast jet inshore boat. Aid II. When a call-out comes, both lifeboats, a control tower and a mobile base in a Landrover are... - View image in PDF
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