Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, the local official of the Northern Lighthouse Board asked for the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper from the Chickens Rock...
Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire.—Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning of the llth of December, 1948, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617, bound with stores from Invergordon to Rosyth, wirelessed to Wick Radio that she was...
Lives saved.
Advance, steamer, of Glasgow ... 3 Alnwick, schooner, of Beaumaris. . 3 Amelie, brig, of Frederickstadt... 9 Andola, ship, of Andola 28 Andrada, barque, of Liverpool— landed 19.
Aneurin,...
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In 51 moncas of war our life-boats have rescued 5,385 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 191 medals for gallantry..
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Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
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Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
NOV. 25TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two heavy explosions at sea had been reported. The life-boat went first to the East Newcombe Buoy but found nothing.
She then went north to Corton Light-vessel which told...
Arbroath, Angus.—At about 5.20 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, it was noticed that the S.S. Florence, of Liverpool, which had anchored earlier in the afternoon off the harbour entrance, was in difficulties. She was a vessel...
Employees of the Poole-based telecommunications company GPT recently donated £300 to the Institution. The money will be used to purchase much needed protective clothing for lifeboatmen.
Brian Woolgar from GPT is... - View image in PDF
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