Yachts on a lee shore A YACHT, Westralia, dragging her anchor in Forth Wen Bay and in danger of going on to rocks was reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Cemaes Bay Coastguard at 2009 on August 30, 1975. Maroons...
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 14th October, the Coxswain, who was near the harbour, saw a fishing boat making for the entrance.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the river Girvan, which...
A framed record of thanks was presented to Captain Ian Gibb of P and O ss Canberra by Lt-Cdr Brian Miles (2nd I.), staff officer operations RNLI and himself a former officer of P and O.
Since last September £3,000 has... - View image in PDF
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The seas off the north of Scotland and around Orkney and Shetland can be unforgiving and, in the worst of weathers, will catch out even the largest of ships. The safety of mariners and sea users in the area is overseen by the Maritime and... - View image in PDF
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights rang up and asked if the life-boat would land a sick man fromthe Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat...
a r o u n d and about t h e RNLI Commissioned to choose the winners! Winners of the RNLI's 53rd national lottery were drawn on 30 April by Robin Guthrie, Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.
Mr Guthrie, who...
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...
50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
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Anstruther combined the naming ceremony for their new life-boat The Doctors with their centenary celebrations. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester named the boat after a service of dedication on 28th July, 1965.
The...
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.—-At 11 o'clock on the night of the 19th December, a message was received by telephone reporting that a vessel was making distress signals off the Hook Sands at the entrance of Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Hamar was promptly launched...