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...
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Life-float parade The theme for this year's carnival parade in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire was 'sports' so the ladies lifeboat guild sailed up the High Street to the sound of Rod Stewart's... - View image in PDF
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A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
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Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
Torbay, Devon - At 10.28 a.m on 9th April, 1967, it was reported that four youths were rowing from Teignmouth to Dartmouth in a 16-foot racing skiff. Their escort boat had gone aground and the youths had continued without it. As the sea was...
The ketch Cornish Lass, of Plymouth, whilst bound from Saundersfoot to Caldy Island in ballast, stranded on the North Sands on the llth November*. A strong E.S.E. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat William and...
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
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Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St Helier lifeboat...