NOV. 4TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.7 P.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with squalls. There was a...
EASTBOUBNX.—In the afternoon of the 24th of September, during a strong gale from the S.W., and a rough sea, it was reported that a large vessel was ashore near Bexhill Coastguard Station. The Wittiam and Mary Life-boat was taken to the spot,...
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
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Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his involvement with the RNLI goes back even further
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his...
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FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th of May, 1944, the motor fishing boat Cecil Rhodes, with six men on board, caught fire while fishing some nine miles north-north-east of Eyemouth. A light westerly wind was...
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ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.
Seven of the nine were rescued from the...
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Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...
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SINKING LONG-SHORE BOAT TOWED INTO DOCK Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.46 on the morning of Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted three miles east-by-north of the lookout....