JANUARY 15TH. - DONAGHADEE, CLOUGHEY, AND NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A steamer had gone ashore. The life-boats searched in the fog without finding her, for she had got off and had gone on her way to Belfast. - Rewards :...
The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
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Guiding Hand on fire north east of Ramsgate.. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 18TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Flora and Star of Hope had put to sea at 10 A.M. in fine weather, but by 1.45 PM. the N.W. wind had increased and the sea had become very rough,...
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
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Storm Warriors of the Suffolk Coast, by Ernest Read Cooper, F.S.A. (" Suf- folk Coast"). With a Foreword by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Heath Granton, Ltd. : 3s. Qd.
MAJOR COOPER has...
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ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
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DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
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