CAISTER.—On the 28th March, a vessel was seen by her lights to be approaching the Barber Sand, and to lay fast on it about 7.45 P.M., when flares were burned immediately on board her. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat was forthwith launched, and...
Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported to Plymouth deputy launching authority at 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater, and that her crew...
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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DURING 1935 the coastguard took action in the case of 733 vessels off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rocket life-saving appar- atus companies were assembled 68 times for service and 87 people were brought to safety by...
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On the evening of 9th November, 1969, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat was manoeuvred seven times alongside a severely listingJDanish ship, a service for which Coxswain John Bryan has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s bronze medal...
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1. Burnham's new crew room is reasonably close, on the shore side of the marina.
2. The lifeboat launches stern-first and the boathouse is remarkaly uncluttered.
The entire hydraulic system rs so small... - View image in PDF
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A request has been made by a visitor to Newquay, Cornwall, that there should be more than one Life-boat Day each year, and the request is heartily supported by one of the local newspapers, the Bodmin Guardian.
The visitor...
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At 7 A.M. on the 4th March the fishing cobles put to sea in a S.E. wind with a nasty sea.
Two hours later the weather became worse, the wind increasing to a gale, and it was decided to launch the Life- boat Hollon the Third...