North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...
The Institution's Depot at Boreham Wood. - View image in PDF
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Scene at The Valentia Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Captain Philip Roberts at the draw.. - View image in PDF
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Right: The control room at RAF Kinloss.. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 3RD. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. A German aeroplane had been brought down in the sea, but nothing could be found except a patch of oil. - Rewards. £17 14s.
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
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Dover, Kent. At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1957, a message was received that an open boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles outside the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 1.28 the life-boat South- ern Africa...