AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
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Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Flight crews, back-up teams and equipment on display at Culdrose, including a Wessex (I) and Sea King (r). photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
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HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...
Barry Pike, an ex-policeman, was Motor Mechanic at Torbay when he was awarded the silver medal for gallantry and the Ralph Glister award for a service on October 5,1973.. - View image in PDF
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Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
The Otto Miller and The Nora After Their Collision at Sea. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
As...
This life-boat also went off on the 22nd March and rendered important services to the brig Henrietta Greve, of Granton, which, daring a fresh gale from E.N.E., had grounded in Pakefield Gatway, but which was got off and taken to port with...
IN the last number of The Lifeboat was published an article on the Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, the two families in that little fishing village from which are drawn the greater part of the Crew of the Boulmer...
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