RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
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As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
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AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.
Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...
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BROUGHTY FERRY, N.B.—It was reported, about 5 P.M. on the 4th March, that a schooner had gone ashore on the Lady Bank, and when she could 'be seen through the snow and drift, which was only at intervals, she appeared to be partially...
On the 13th November the fishing-boat Lucy Jane, which had been out fishing for herrings, got into difficulties when about three miles from Clovelly and was in danger of being swamped. The Life-boat Elinor Boget was launched and suc- ceeded...
THE Institution has received the follow- ing gifts from its Crews.
On 29th July, 1925, the Clacton-on- Sea Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Walkyrie, of Lannion, which had stranded on the N.E. Long Sands when bound from...
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Filey On 2 July 2001 For The Naming. - View image in PDF
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Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
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Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...
Launching the Life-boat on 9th August with the sons of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, on board.. - View image in PDF
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