JULY 26TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported that a fishing boat had burnt a flare one mile south-east-by-east of Wick, and at 11.35 the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a...
On the 1st November, the schooner Auchimcruive, of Grangemouth, stranded in a strong gale and very heavy sea off Banff Harbour. The Banff life-boat pro- ceeded at once to her and took off her crew of 6 persons, the vessel shortly after...
The sea stale during the joint service to Torridge Warrior can be judged from this photograph of the casualty under tow. When her sampsom post carried away Ilfracombe's lifeboat took up the tow from the fishing vessel's quarter posts... - View image in PDF
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On the afternoon of the 2nd October the coast- guard reported that the Shoreham Harbour tug Adur II, while towing a hopper out to sea, had fouled^her propeller, and was drifting on to a lee shore. A strong, and increasing, S. breeze was...
Harwich's new Atlantic 21, dedicated on Saturday May 27 by the Reverend J. Chelton, the branch padre, was provided by Dudley Hunt; Mr and Mrs R. Aitken, members of the family, were present. Also present were members of Harwich and... - View image in PDF
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In recognition ofRamsgate Sea Cadet Carp's continued help and support, T. Brown, station honorary secretary, Ramsgate, last spring presented an RNLI pennant to the commanding officer of TS Bulldog, LtJ. Willis,... - View image in PDF
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Philip Denham, helmsman of one of Blackpool's two D class lifeboats, joined the crew in 1977.
He was awarded a bronze medal in 1988 for gallantry in recognition of the courage, skill and determination he displayed... - View image in PDF
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FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
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The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...
On the 7th April, 1869, the Arthur Frederick FitzRoy life-boat, on this station, went off to the barque Columbia, of Stavanger, which, during a high wind and dense fog, had run ashore opposite the life- boat house, soon after midnight. The...