MASTER SERIOUSLY ILL Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 10.50 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that the master of the motor fishing vessel Sea Scout was seriously ill and the Sea Scout was lying just outside Eyemouth bay...
On the night of the 17th, lights, repeated in quick succession, were seen in the direction of the New Sand light, and the Donna Nook Life-boat proceeded to sea, but the unfortunate vessel, which was found to be the Annie, of Montrose, had...
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
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ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made...
Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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DR NORA ACHESON who died in Aideburgh in 1981, in her eightieth year, had always been connected with the local lifeboat. It was thought that she was the first lady doctor ever to have gone to sea in an RNLI lifeboat on service when she stood...
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Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
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