A GREETING of 'Hi-de-hi.r of course brought a resounding response of 'Hode- ho!' from the audience gathered to witness the draw of the RNLTs twentysecond national lottery at Poole HO on Friday July 29. Jeffrey Holland and Felix...
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JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...
About noon of the 14th of November, during a terrible gale from the N.E., signals of distress were hoisted on board vessels at anchor in Fishguard Koads. The No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perratt, was at once launched; but before she could...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.9 on the night of 21st April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been reported to have left Cowes pontoon in an 8-ft. pram dinghy for their ship in Cowes Roads, and there...
On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
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R.A.F. DESERTERS RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.35 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard at Warden Point reported a small yacht, with her engine broken down, drifting near forts on the Shivering Sands, and the...
Arbroath lifeboat crew welcome to their boathouse lifeboatmen from The Netherlands Royal North and South Lifeboat Society (front row) who attended a course at the Robert Gordons Institute of Technology Offshore Marine Rescue Training Centre... - View image in PDF
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Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
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Youghal, Co. Cork - At 11.15 p.m.
on ist April, 1966, a fisherman informed the honorary secretary that a salmon yawl was in difficulties off Youghal. As the weather was bad the life-boat J. B.
Couper of...