Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
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(lower right) Captain Rowlock and Unable Seaman Bilge put a humorous shine on lessons in sensible seamanship - although Captain Rowlock did seem to spend quite a lot of the time in the water!. - View image in PDF
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HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the current...
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Torbay, Devon. At 1.20 a.m. on 2ist December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a red rocket had been seen in a position five to six miles off Dartmouth in the area of Start Bay.
The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent...
Portaferry, May 9, 1987 There was a large gathering for the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Portaferry Atlantic 21 lifeboat Blue Peter V. The occasion included the official opening of the new boathouse, made possible...
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AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
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