Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
Drifting on ebb tide WHILE AT SEA on exercise at 1115 on Sunday, April 4, St Catherines ILB received a message by radio from the Sea Rescue Centre, St Helier, to say that a small motorboat had broken down one mile east of the ILB station;...
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1995 show that during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 6,092 times (an average of more than 16 launches a day) 1,621 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some 4%...
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A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
EARLY in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, of London, ran ashore on Checkstone Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, owing to the temporary failure...
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Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
A pillar collecting box on the cliffs at Sennen. Longships lighthouse is in the distance.. - View image in PDF
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Following the loss of Penlee lifeboat in 1981, Dudley branch launched an appeal as a tribute to Mrs Mary Richards, mother of the late Coxswain Trevelyan Richards. A cheque for the £5,396.83 raised, which will go towards the purchase of... - View image in PDF
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Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
To the Rev. K. H. MACDERMOTT, upon his ( retirement after 10 years as Honorary Secretary of the Selsey Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To the Rev. R. J. HODGES, upon his retirement after...
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