On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
Early in the morning of the 1st October the Life- boat Docea Chapman was called out, during a moderate north-westerly breeze and moderately rough sea, to the assistance of the steam trawler Ipswich, of Grimsby, which was stranded near...
Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
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Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer ap- peared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was confirmed.
The Life-boat...
Dover, Kent.—At 7.45 on the even- ing of the 1st of August, 1952, H.M.
Customs Coastwatcher reported that two men were cut off by the tide between St. Margarets Bay and Dover, and at 8.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
IT is not only the crews of the Life- boats who carry on in spite of injury.
There have recently been two cases, which deserve to be recorded, of ladies continuing their work for financial Branches after serious...
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— At 8 P.M. on the 19th January the watchman re- ported that a vessel had stranded on the "Inner Binks," about one mile S.E.
of the Watch House. Robert Cross, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, at once went to the...
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.
As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...
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JULY 1ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. During thick fog the Greek steamer Gerassimos Vergottis and the Dutch steamer Van Ostade had collided, and the Greek steamer had been badly damaged.
The life-boats could not...