While the wind was blowing a gale on the 24th February, the Gull Light-ship fired signals of distress for a ship on the Goodwin, and the Van Kook life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the sands, when the ship Ingrie, of Amsterdam,...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
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THE THREAT 'Nah then, Augustus, just you keep in yer depth there, else you'll 'ave the life-boat after yer.
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.45 on the^morning of the 14th of November, 1956, the coxswain received a message from a local fisherman that two fishing cobles were at sea with the weather becoming worse. At 7.35 the life-boat Friendly Forester...
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
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Fall from cliff INFORMATION that a man had fallen over the cliff near the Western Carricks was given to St Ives station honorary secretary by Land's End Coastguard at 1351 on Wednesday August 26, 1981, and he was asked to launch the D...
10 years ago, we opened our training centre of excellence. A decade on, what difference has RNLI College made?
There’s a small but unusual entry in the Winter 2012 launches feature of the...
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MARCH 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Dutch motor vessel Caribia, which had gone ashore on the Scroby Sands, and to the help of which both the Caister and Gorleston life-boats had been launched on the 26th and 27th of...
In response to three guns fired from the Gorton lightship the Lowestoft Life-boat was also launched at about 9 A.M. on the 17th December and was towed out by the tug Rainbow. The wind was blowing half a gale from the N.E. accompanied by a...