SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
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Search for missing divers The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 (see previous page), and the efforts of...
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...
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ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
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Survivor story After being rescued by Tramore's lifeboat on 26 March, Rob Howorth thanked the RNLI for saving his life: 'I was playing on my friend's jetski inTramore bay, when it stopped running, leaving me in the water....
At 2.40 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Rocka- Nore. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 2.46 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was high...
NORTH DEAL, WALMEH, AND RAMS- GATE, KENT.—The Life-boats Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 4, and Charles and Susanna Stephens were launched a few minutes after midnight on the 4th- 5th April, in answer to signals of distress, the steamer...
Dover, Kent.—At 11.58 on the night of the 30th of May, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard passed on a report from the North Foreland radio station that the motor vessel Prins Bernhard, of Gro- ningen, had been in collision five miles south of...
Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian pictured attempting to tow the empty liferaft from the fishing vessel Premier. The wind at the time was Force 11 and the sea state the worst ever experienced by the lifeboat's coxswain. The... - View image in PDF
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