HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the...
Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...
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RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which was originally funded by our Shoreline appeal, moved station last year from Blyth, in Northumberland, to Arbroath where, on Saturday April 16, a service of re-dedication was held. It may...
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Newsbuoy's inflatable Y boat takes a lifeboat crew member off the replica longboat just before beginning the long tow back to Stromness.. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER MEETING DUNGENESS, KENT. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th September, 1940, an R.A.F. pilot baled out from his aeroplane and came down in the sea five miles S.W.
by W. of Galloways. The weather was moderate....
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Addressing The Australian Gift Parcels at The Depot, Boreham Wood. - View image in PDF
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Cashing up are Richard Wright /centre! with (from left) Cyril, Jean and Neil Tysall and FtNLI area organiser, James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
Photo: Birmingham Post and Mail. - View image in PDF
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LOUGH SWILLY | 8 SEPTEMBER
Lough Swilly lifeboat crew rescued six fishermen and their sinking boat off the Donegal coast. The inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched at 3.15am. They found all six...
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Coxswain James Thomas Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies, died on 1st January, at the age of seventy-one.
He had spent twenty-eight years as an officer of the life-boat, being appointed bowman in 1897, second coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
BODIMIB, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.— At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th October the Robin Hood of Nottingham Life-boat put off and rescued the crew, consisting of four men, from the brig Success,of Sunderland, bound from that port for Arbroath with a cargo of...