Passenger ferry loses steering in storm Following an eight-hour night service to a passenger ferry in storm force winds and 35ft seas - said to be the worst conditions seen in the area for several years and causing the local harbour to be...
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the morning of the 19th May, signal rockets being fired by the light-ship and coast-guard station, the Willie and Arthur Life-boat put off at 2 o'clock, and proceeded in tow of a steam-tug to Taylor's Bank, where the...
On 17th April, 1969, Abbotsford County Secondary School for Boys, Ashford, Middlesex, held a sponsored walk on behalf of the R.N.L.I. and raised a record sum—over £1,250. Of the 460 children who took part, 450 completed the 20- mile...
Category: Donations
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Helen Blake is the sole example of a design intended for use in confined waters. The War intervened and no others were built.
She spent her 20 years of service on the Liffey Estuary in Ireland.
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Buckie, Banffshire - At 12.20 a.m. on 10th September, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht or fishing boat was in distress in the vicinity of Covesea Skerries, Lossiemouth. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped...
BOULMER.—A boat, containing four men, being observed off Boulmer during a strong W.N.W. wind and a high sea on the 4th March, the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham put off to her assistance at 7 A.M., and brought ashore the boat and the...
WE regret to report two serious losses which the Committee of Management have suffered by the death, on the llth September, of Admiral of the Fleet the MARQUESS or MILFORD HAVEN, and, on the 14th August, of Sir EDWARD FEETHAM COAXES, BT.<...
Category: Obituaries
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.8 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt from the pilots of a wireless message received from the tanker Elsa Tholstrup, of Middelfart, Denmark, that she had a...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.15 on the evening of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the drifter Star of Hope was stranded on the Scroby Sands and was asking for help. There was a...