FEB. 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local...
Lasting the night During the night of 2 July, a lone yachtsman faced force 10 winds and 10-11m waves, 40 miles off the coast of Donegal. The experienced sailor harnessed himself to the yacht as it capsized repeatedly. In the early hours of...
A naval architect and an accident and emergency doctor from Southampton are just two of the many RNLI supporters who ran the Virgin London Marathon in April.
Nick Burton and Mairi Reynolds, who will marry in July, ran the...
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In May we’ll be celebrating the achievements of RNLI volunteers and supporters at the Annual Presentation of Awards. It’s all happening at the Barbican Hall, London, on 21 May 2015. The Annual General Meeting starts at 11.30am and the awards...
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On the 14th November, the smack Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow, was observed to be fast drifting towards the rocky shore, west of Bude- haven, in a dismasted and unmanageable state. A high surf was setting into the entrance of Budehaven at the...
A RECENT accident to one of our English fleet of Life-boats has once more enlisted the sympathies of the British people, and called forth their admiration of the humanity, courage, and endurance displayed by our sea-coast boatmen in their en...
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The George Gordon Moir Life- boat saved six of the crew of the steamer Topaz, of Glasgow, shortly after midnight on the 14-15th January. It appears that the steamer, which was bound to Glasgow with a cargo of pig-iron, struck Burrow Head and...
The Service to the Lee Bay.
ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...
Category: Services
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
On the 10th December, during a fresh gale from S.S.E.
and heavy cross-sea, the schooner Atlanta, of Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, after striking on the Barber Sands, on the Nor- folk coast, went ashore on Hasborough...