Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 10.34 in the morning of the 7th of April, 1949, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing boat was ashore on the west side of Pladda Island, and at 10.47 the life-boat City of Glasgow was launched. A...
On the 6th December, the ship Thornton, of New York, was stranded on the West Middle Sand off Liverpool during a fresh gale of wind, and subsequently became a total wreck. The Willie and Arthur life- boat went off, and brought ashore the...
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
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Yacht owner injured by boom Weymouth South West Division A service to an American yacht by Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell has led to a letter of thanks to the station's honorary medical adviser Dr Peter Gibbons...
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About 4 on the morning of the 14th February three messengers from different houses in Invertown brought the Honorary Secretary the news that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the trawler Carmania II.,...
SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...
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YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a barge was flying the international code flag F, indicating she was disabled, four miles east-north-east of Margate...
The RNLI has a commitment to the UK and Irish governments to provide a lifeboat service for both countries - that means covering a massive 8,850 miles of coastline up to 50 miles out to sea. In order to provide this search and rescue cover,...
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