Out-of-control casualty stopped by deliberately fouling propeller Wick lifeboat was involved in an unusual, hazardous and tragic service on 15/16 May 1993 when a helicopter spotted a vessel going round in circles at full power some 14 miles...
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Flamborough lifeboat, the 35' 6" Liverpool Friendly Forester, was launched at 1605 on Wednesday, September 8, to go to the help of a cabin cruiser on fire off Flamborough Head. All five of the casualty's crew were taken off, two... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
At 12.30 P.M.
on the 2nd December, when the fishing- boats were coming in from the fishing- ground, the sea was very high owing to the prevailing S.S.E. gale, and it was considered advisable to launch the Life- boat James...
LAST year the Institution greatly increased the retaining fees paid to the officers of life-boats. It also increased the payments made to crews and launchers for exercise launches, and brought in a new scale of rewards for services.
Category: Articles
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ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...
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Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Dublin harbour office that a motor launch with three men on board needed help two hundred yards south of Poolbeg...