Arbroath, Angus.—On the 16th of December, 1955, the local pilot boat put off with a pilot to warn a vessel not to attempt to enter the harbour in the bad weather, but the pilot boat broke down and was towed in. At 2.30 in the afternoon the...
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
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COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
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IT is with much pleasure that we record that the Netherlands Government have shown their appreciation of the service of the Fishguard Motor Life-boat in saving seven lives from the Dutch motor schooner Hermina, on the 3rd December, 1920, by...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 3rd of October, 1951, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore close to the Shoeburyness Boom, but had not replied to signals made to her. At9.45 the life-boat Greater...
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.3 on the night of the 8th of January, 1949, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the engine of the outward bound Hull trawler Cramond Isle had broken down, that the trawler was leaking badly, and that, although...