Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil... - View image in PDF
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[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
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From St. Helier, Ilfracombe, Appledore and Holyhead. - View image in PDF
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SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
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ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
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Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 4.20 p.m. on I5th July, 1967, information was received that a member of the crew of the motor vessel Ocean 7 (Wireless transmitting Station Radio 270) had collapsed and needed medical attention. The lifeboat...
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The R.N.L.I.'s New Mobile Display Unit. - View image in PDF
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About •8.45 in the evening, on the 16th of August, 1950, the Southcnd Coast- guard telephoned that a small vessel had been reported oil a reef at Arran- man's Barrels Buoy, Macharioch. At 9.13 the life-boat...
At about 1.10 P.M. on the 8th January the Coxswain was informed by a fisherman that a fishing boat had broken down and was blowing towards the shore south oi Whitby. The Coastguard confirmed this and added that another fishing boat was going...