FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
OFF BEACHY HEAD Eastbourne, Sussex.—At about 6.0 ill the morning of the 31st of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a boat, with one man on board, was drag- ging her anchor and making flares five and a half miles south-west of the...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—On the night of the 18th June the coastguard reported that a motor yacht off the harbour was in need of help. A moderate to fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a fairly rough sea. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Gordon Knight Chairman of the Volvo National Dealers Association Draws The Winning Ticket The Scottish Volvo Draw Outside The Rnli's Scottish Headquarters. - View image in PDF
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Recovery at Padstow: watching the keel like a hawk, head launcher Pat Raby waits for the right moment to throw the heaving line. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Mark Dancy. - View image in PDF
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In answer to signals of distress, and a message from the Lighthouse, the. Life-boat Helen Smitten was launched shortly after 6 P.M. on the 26th March. The Ketch Colonel Moir, in a dismasted state, was found drifting helplessly about three...
Rescued, landed and towed in...
Hayling Island lifeboat crew had their work cut out for them at an incident last year when, what started out as an annual goodwill visit, turned into a full scale clean up operation! On 31...
On the 16th September, this Life-boat again proceeded in tow of the harbour steamer to the barque Amazon, of Gothen- burg, then a total wreck on the Goodwin Sands, and saved from her the master, his wife, and 11 men. There was at the time a...
JULY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. In the early hours of the morning several fishing boats were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm, and at 2.52 they were reported to be making for Rye harbour, but at 3.15 the coastguard reported that one was...