On the 30th December the brig Delegate, of London, struck on the Caister Shoal, or Inner Barber Sands, while the wind was blowing very hard from the south.
A Caister yawl went off to her assistance, but although one of the...
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.
He won the silver medal for...
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Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
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XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
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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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While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
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ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
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Mrs J. Stancer, chairman of the Warwick ladies' lifeboat guild, holding the new silver lifeboat trophy described on this page. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Heart of England Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
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