On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
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Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At...
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 5.30 on the morning of 19th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Tuskar of Groningen was being aban- doned by her crew in a position 15 miles south-west of...
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 10.52 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coxswain superintendent was notified by the coastguard that a small boat had broken down one and a half miles northeast of the Outer Binks buoy. There was a near gale from the...
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
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Richard Vaughan (right) presents a cheque for £1,500 to Rear Admiral Graham (left) and the Stockbridge branch after the clay pigeon shoot.. - View image in PDF
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The New Fowey Motor Life-Boat A 45 Feet 6 Inches Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
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The Electric Winch Used For Hauling Up and Housing Motor Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
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