AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 18th day of March, 1858, Vice-Admiral the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, KG., F.R.S., in the Chair, The following Report of the...
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Stranded horses towed to safetyFour horses were spotted without riders on the East Winner Bank just off the west end of Hayling Island, Hampshire in July 2003. With dusk approaching and a rising tide, there was concern for the safety of both...
MOTHER REPORTS SONS MISSING IN BOAT Torbay, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 26th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the mother of two young men had reported that they had not returned home after leaving...
COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The four Bronze Medallists arrive at the Festival Pier before the Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Full details in the report on page 194 in this issue.
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the local fishing fleet were in difficulties in an easterly gale and a very rough sea. Ten minutes later the life- boat...
(Top) Lifeboat fairleads open to admit the line and then clamp closed. (Right) A fairlead at the stemhead incorporating a roller.. - View image in PDF
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Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
GOURDON.—Early on the morning of the 16th February fifty fishing - boats proceeded to sea, but in the forenoon the wind increased considerably, the sea became heavy and about twenty of the boats, which had not then returned to port, were in...
At dusk on the evening of the 2nd October the schooner Dispatch, of this port, was making for the harbour, when the wind suddenly fell, and she drove over the rocks into the broken water. The master immediately showed a signal of distress,...