SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Two airmen had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless when it was learned that it was two balloons that had come down and they had been mistaken for...
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...
JULY 24TH. - ABERDEEN. At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had seen a yellow dinghy about seven miles to the south-east of Aberdeen.
At 9.25 the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was...
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Three new films are now available to branches. All are in colour and 16 m.m.
sound.
One of the new films. From Baltimore to Littlehampton, which runs for 12 minutes, tells the story of how the 44-foot...
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Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...
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JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
ENGLISH AND DANISH FISHING BOATS IN DISTRESS Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At half-past one in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, information was telephoned from Whitby to Runs- wick that the fishing boat Gem, belong- ing...
The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...
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On fire THE FISHING VESSEL Glen RilUU'S Of Buckie, on fire off Burghead with a crew of three aboard, was reported to the honorary secretary of Buckie lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 2000 on Thursday April 13.
A...