Six of the fishing cobles belong- ing to Berwick and Spittal went to sea on the morning of the 24th January, and when at their lines, were overtaken by a sudden gale from N.E. The Cox- swain launched the Life-boat Matthew Simpson, at the...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of April, 1953, the fishing cobles Betty, Rosemary, and Rachel, of Scarborough, were at sea in bad weather, and the weather was becoming worse. About 7.35 one of them was seen...
During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...
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Launch By Horses at Padstow Fifty Years Ago. - View image in PDF
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As a forerunner to 'Operation Lifeboat', Devon Scouts visited Plymouth lifeboat station on December 8, 1973, when they were taken out in Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse for practical demonstrations: on steering. - View image in PDF
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Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
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A good service was skilfully performed by the No. 1 Lifeboat Kentwell on the 27th May during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea. About midnight on the 26th idem flares were reported near the South Pier, and the coxswain of the Life-boat...
Flying the RNLI flag Three members of Port Talbot lifeboat crew represented the Institution at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Pauls Cathedral on 19 October 1994.
Ronald Jones, Peter Thomas and Robert Parker...
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SELSEY.—On the 18th October, signals of distress having been observed, the Lifeboat Four Sisters was launched, and proceeded to the Royal Mail steamer Elbe, which had gone ashore on the Puller Bank during a strong E. wind and hazy weather....