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ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...

Wick, Caithness-shire. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, two local fishing boats were caught at sea by a strong easterly breeze, with a rough sea. They were seen making for harbour and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh...

spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...

On the 14th December the ship Bobina, bound from Aguilas, in Spain, to Shields, went ashore off Jury's Gap. The Eye Life-boat Arthur Frederick Fitzroy, and the Solicitors' and Proctors' Life-boat Storm Sprite, stationed at...

The sprit-sail barge Cecilia, of London, whilst bound from Orford Haven to Grimsby, with a cargo of shingle, had her sails blown away when off Saltfleet on the 8th April. Signals of distress were hoisted, and the Life-boat John Bowson...

Two local sisters, Mrs. S. J. Sutcliffe and Miss M. A. Law (left), handing over an IRB at Llandudno, which they have presented in memory of Mrs. Sutcliffe's husband.. - View image in PDF

On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...