Memorial memories I have been commissioned to write a book on the Maritime Memorials and Mementoes of Great Britain which will be published by Patrick Stephens about the end of 1994.
To supplement the information which I...
Category: Correspondence
A LIFE-BOAT on temporary duty at the Weston-super-Mare station parted from her moorings on the afternoon of the 12th April, and was driven on to rocks and was so severely damaged that she has had to be written off as a total...
Category: Articles
— About 4 A..M. on the 26th Jan., at which time it was blowing a gale from S.E., a pilot cutter discovered the wreck of the three-masted schooner No. 4, of j Arundel, on the Abertay Sands ; she there- \ upon bore up to communicate with the j...
At 5.46 p.m. on 25th April, 1967, information was received that a fishing boat returning from the Minquiers had engine trouble and was taking in water.
The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station,...
3. A sail past of the inshore lifeboats. Photo Robin Sharp. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: A reconstruction of the rescue for television Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To save lives at sea our brave crews have to be well-trained and well-equipped.
This is why we need you, with a Lifeboats MasterCard, onboard. Sign up today and The Royal Bank of Scotland will donate £10 to the RNLI....
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(Photo left) Vic Choules (right) hands over the D class lifeboat to Mr Anthony Oliver (left) head of the RNLI's fund raising. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the llth Janu- ary the schooner Laurel, of Goole, came on shore, during a strong wind and heavy sea.
The Parsee life-boat, which was immediately launched, succeeded in saving the crew of 3 ...
— The schooner Gipsy King, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked during a heavy gale of wind on the Dulas Rocks, on the Anglesey coast, on the 17th October. At daybreak, during fearful weather, one of the crew was seen floating on a piece of...