Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...
On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat, one...
On the 21st December, during a sudden gale from the S.E., a fishing coble was seen j making for the shore. On reaching the bar ! the sea ran very heavy, and the other fisher- men, seeing the imminent danger their com- ! rades were in...
STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues each year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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WITH reference to our article under the above heading in the May issue of the Life-boat Journal, we are now able, through the courtesy of the British Consul-General at St. Petersburg, to supplement our survey by giving some details with...
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Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 394 New Year Message from the Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Letters 400 Prince of Life-boats—a Diary by J. P. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters'...
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RONALDSWAY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the sea near Ronaldsway, about 440 yards off shore. The weather was calm. Captain D. G. Pickard, of the Irish Guards, was out...
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MARY TAMM, the actress most remembered for her portrayal of Doctor Who's assistant in the long-running BBC serial, drew the RNLI's twenty-fifth national lottery on Monday April 30 at Poole HQ. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...
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