.—During a heavy gale from the N.E. on the same day the brig Mary Young, of West Hartle- pool, grounded on the North Gare Sand- bank at the entrance of the Tees, a mile and a half south of Seaton Carew. The Charlotte life-boat at the latter...
Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 12.5 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, a small boat with two men on board was reported in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat J. G.
Graves of Sheffield was launched at 12.15 in a slight north...
WAVED FOR HELP Anstruther, Fife. At 11.6 a.m. on 5th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man in a small boat off Cellandyke was reported to be waving for help. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...
COXSWAIN JOHN TRIMBLE, of the Donaghadee, Co. Down, lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly. Appointed coxswain in April, 1960, he was second coxswain from November, 1954, until his present appointment.
Since April, 1950, when he was...
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This life-boat, the money for which is being raised in the city of Bradford, recently carried out a joint exercise with a helicopter (see page 151). - View image in PDF
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Members of Uttoxer Ladies' Guild made the most of their local festival by entering a 'float' in the procession.
A 'float' was an appropriate name, as they borrowed a publicity inshore lifeboat from their... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 7TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 4.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making distress signals between three and five miles to the south-west-by-west. The weather was calm, but there was fog...
THROUGH the generous gift of Lady John Joicey-Cecil the Royal National Life-boat Institution has lately come into the possession of a very precious relic connected with our Island story, and one singularly appropriate to the humane and...
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The late Vic Whitten's brother, Edgar Whiffen and his wife at the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
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