HAETLEPOOI.— On the otfa December the schooner Anapira, of Newburgfa, was observed about seven miles E.N.E. of Hartlepool. At the time a, most severe gale was raging, accompanied by sleet showers and a heavy sea. At 2.30 she was seen to put...
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Search in breaking seas ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday, August 30, 1974, four young children were swimming in the sea off Golden Sands Chalet Park about one mile south of Withernsea ILB station. The wind was fresh and the sea rough and it was...
Lt Cmdr Edward (Ted) Yates VRD RNR, honorary secretary of Llandudno lifeboat station from 1978 to 1994. He was appointed assistant honorary secretary in 1963, deputy launching authority from 1970 to 1977 and honorary secretary designate from...
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24 September: Eastbourne Two jet skiers were attempting a passage from Newhaven to the Sovereign Light Tower when one of their craft suffered engine failure. They tried to use the craft that was still working to...
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Longhope, Orkneys 16th March.
A trawler was wrecked at Hoy Island, but the Stromness life-boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
(An account of the rescue is on the next page.).
DEC. 17TH. -POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, AND SWANAGE, DORSET. The schooner Maud Mary, flying the Polish flag, had gone ashore west of the Old Harry Rocks, but the crew got away in their own boat.
- Rewards: Poole and Bournemouth...
(left) The RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.. - View image in PDF
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When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …
In 2012, two men...
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Ramsey lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley class James Ball Ritchie, setting out from harbour on April 10, 1986, in a north-easterly near gale to go to the aid of a cabin cruiser broken down 13 miles off the coast of the Isle of Man.
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