CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 10th December the Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, put off at 2 P.M., and remained by the steamer Watford, of Sunderland, laden with iron ore from Bilbao for Stockton, which had stranded on the North Barber Sand...
Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
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At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—During the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, a fishing competition was held in Llandudno Bay, but the weather deteriorated and all but two of the small boats returned to the shore.
About 3...
Blown offshore ON THE EVENING OF Thursday July 5, 1984, Clyde Coastguard received a 999 call after a small speedboat had been seen, broken down about three quarters of a mile off Cowan Rock, near Girvan.
Her crew of two men...
Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...
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engines ere complete reliability under arduous conditions is essential to human life,the RNLI specify MERMAID marine engines.
MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take pride in the...
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Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber has been awarded the George medal by the King for the rescue of the crew of the Grimsby trawler "Gurth" on 12th. February 1940. The Institution awarded him its gold medal for the same service....
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