Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
Supporting the RNLI’s lifeboat crews can be as simple as sitting down for a cup of tea.
Lifeboat Tea is already available in Waitrose, and from March you’ll be able to pick up a box in Tesco and Asda stores. For every pack...
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An oil painting of the Walton-on-the-Naze life-boat aiding the grounded collier Ypapanti, off the Essex coast in the November gales of 1966, was the centre of attraction at a dinner and life-boat film show in aid of the R.N.L.I. at the... - View image in PDF
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PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...
NOV. 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 12.5 2 P.M. the Japanese steamer Terukuni Maru, of Tokio, bound for London, was sunk by enemy action about one and a half miles E. of the north-east Gunfleet Buoy. A light easterly breeze was...
On the evening of the 15th November the whole of the local fishing fleet, excepting the Mar- garet and Helen, had returned from the fishing grounds on account of bad weather. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. About 5.30 P...
Holy Island, Northumberland. — A t 10.40 A.M. on the 7th January the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing coble Reliance was at sea. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing. The sea was heavy and breaking right across the bar. The...
Aberdeen.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 29th of January, 1956, the coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Stone- haven radio station that the trawlers York City, of Grimsby, and Junella, of Hull, had picked up...
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When you are saving lives only the best will do. Rigid hull inflatables are now in service with the R.N.L.I, and H.M.
Coastguard. The superiority of this design in rescue work over a pure...
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Margate, Kent.—At 5.54 on the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin lightvessel had reported that a dinghy had drifted past her with an unidentified object hanging on its...