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ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW rock, and at 9.11 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put to sea. There was a light south-south-easterly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat made a search and found the yacht four miles south of...
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'ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING’
I thought you might be interested to know that my painting of the shipping forecast, entitled 'Attention All Shipping', was awarded top prize in a competition run by the British...
Category: Articles
Mrs N Mitchell
Mrs N. Mitchell, chairman of Haywards Heath Branch from 1966 to 1987 and president from 1987 to 1989. She was awarded a silver badge in 1977..
Category: Obituaries
Modifications:
Modifications: Coxswain Kenneth Henry (I) is seen about to strike the first blow in the demolition of the old crew assembly room to make way for a new building. It is all part of a £650,000 project at Aith lifeboat station (Shetland)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Padstow Steam Life-Boat James Stevens No, 4 Photographed In 1899 and a Year Before She Capsized on 11Th April, 1900, With the Loss of Eight of Her Crew. (Left) the Padstow Life-Boat Arab
The Padstow steam life-boat James Stevens No, 4 photographed in 1899 and a year before she capsized on 11th April, 1900, with the loss of eight of her crew.
(Left) The Padstow life-boat Arab pictured on 11th April, 1900,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.—The crew of the Life-boat placed here by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION not being satisfied with their boat, and having expressed a strong desire that they might be furnished with another one, the Institution has...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.24 p.m. on 19th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized one mile south of the entrance to Fowey harbour.
The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her...
Francis Drake
Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
Category: Services
Pwllheli: Lifeboat and Ilb on Exercise With a Helicopter from Raf Valley Which Works Closely With All Knli Stations In the Area Photograph By Courtesy of J Tulloch
Pwllheli: Lifeboat and ILB on exercise with a helicopter from RAF Valley, which works closely with all KNLI stations in the area. photograph by courtesy of J. Tulloch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs