On the morn- ing of the 26th February the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the coastguard on watch at Cloughey that a small coasting steamer was aground on the rocks about four hundred yards east of Ballyquinton Point....
After her naming at Breakwater Promenade, Gorleston, Barham casts off for a demonstration of her manoeuvrability. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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. . . and is greeted as she comes ashore at HMS Vernon (right) by members of Walmer crew, at Portsmouth for the handing over ceremony of their new Rather lifeboat, Hampshire Rose. They are introduced by Michael Pennell, divisional inspector... - View image in PDF
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'Thursday, 10th May, 1934.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the chair.
Passed a vote of thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., president of the Institution, for his kindness in presiding at the 110th...
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MINISTER OF TRANSPORT EXPRESSES THANKS Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the evening of the 3rd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a mayday distress signal had been heard from a vessel and that they were trying...
The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew Hartwell, managing... - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall.—-At 4.43 in the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local pleasure boat Reaper, with a boat- man and twelve passengers aboard, had struck a rock between Wicca Point and Zennor Point,...
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
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On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...
This series of IRB photographswas taken by David Harwood on 4th April, 1969,when the Exmouth, Devon, IRB rescued two men whose rowing boat had been swampedat the south endof Western Way.
The two men were suffering from... - View image in PDF
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