The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
DUNBAR, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—About half-past five on the morning of the '25th March information was received that the schooner Guide, of Faversham, bound for Grangemouth from London with a cargo of pig iron, was ashore on a reef of rocks...
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At 1.41 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Norwegian steamer Belpariel, of Oslo, was in need ofhelp. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Visibility...
IT WAS QUIPS AND LAUGHTER all the way when Paul Daniels, comedian and conjuror, drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's ninth national lottery at Poole HQ on Thursday July 31. The draw was supervised by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...
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Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...
At 1.45 on the following afternoon the barque Anna, of Copenhagen, having stranded on the West Gunfleet Sands, the Life-boat was once again taken out, and proceeded to her assistance. It was decided to remain by her until the tide flowed, in...
Cromer, Norfolk. At 5.35 on the morning of the 2nd of March, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Continental and the British ship Wans- beck had been in collision ten miles north-west-by-north of...
Largs, Ayrshire. Letters of appreciation were sent by the Institution to the three members of the crew of the Largs inshore rescue boat who rescued four people and a dog from a motor launch on yth July, 1964. At 10.35 a-m- on that date the...
The motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 4.54 A.M. on the 3rd January, as the Hoylake coastguard had tele- phoned that the steamer Landes, of Liverpool, was ashore on the revetment, with a heavy list, and wanted immedi- ate...