On the 26th February this life-boat also went to the assistance of the schooners Elizabeth Miller, of Thurso, and Matilda Colder, of Findhorn, which were in distress during a heavy gale. The crews, consisting of 12 men, were brought ashore...
THE Life-boat crews of this district, extending from Palling to Southwold, both inclusive, are formed on a different system from any other of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
The men who man the...
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Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...
WORTHING.—The Life-boat at this j station has recently been replaced by a new and rather larger self-righting boat of the latest type, 35 feet long, 8i feet : wide, and rowing 10 oars double banked ; she has one drop keel and two water...
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EARLY SUMMER began with several inshore lifeboat ceremonies. On Saturday, May 14, a number of readers of the Birmingham Evening Mail, together with members of Birmingham branch committee, travelled to Exmouth, South Devon, for the handing...
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Broken adrift THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY of Thurso was informed by Wick Coastguard at 2105 on Tuesday November 16 1982, that the trawler Arctic Crusader had broken adrift in Scrabster Harbour, close by the lifeboat station, and he was...