Once the lifeboat is high and dry, quarter stoppers support her entire 32 tons as the bridle is dismantled . . .. - View image in PDF
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South Western Division Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported Plymouth deputy launching authority 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater,...
Category: Services
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 8.35 p.m.
on 23rd June, 1967, it was learned that a trimaran had gone ashore in Coatham bay near the Warrenby outfall. The two men on board intended to put to sea again the following morning. In...
AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
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A big lump of sea rising over the bow of the motor barge Roino which ran aground off Margate on 14th April, 1967. - View image in PDF
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Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...
Category: Medals
Three men from Ramsey lifeboat station have laid claim to being the first Manxmen to climb the rigging of an 1863-built full-rigged sailing ship since the Ramsey-built vessel last left the island some 100 years ago... And what were they...
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THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
Category: Poetry
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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