Kinghorn Lifeboat Station’s tractor driver tells us what it’s like to be a part of the RNLI family
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I was senior helm, retiring in 1995. In 2014 I rejoined as tractor driver....
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Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The steam trawler Teal, of London, returning to Lowestoft from the fishing grounds, in thick weather, on the night of the 17th January, stranded about a mile N. of Winterton. At about 1 A.M. she was seen by the look-out...
TOW TAKEN OVER FROM COBLE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coxswain received a message from the Filey fishermen that the Scarborough keelboat Hyperion had reported by radio-telephone that the...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of...
ON 22nd July last there took place the first telephone conversation between a life-boat at sea and the head office of the Institution in London. On that day the representatives of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. visited...
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At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
TWO YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED Hastings, Sussex. At 12.15 p.m. on Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the skipper of the fishing vessel Rose that a small sailing dinghy had apparently capsized and that there was the body of...
During a whole N.E. gale with a very heavy and broken sea a fishing boat came into Scrabster, on the 15th May, and reported that the motor fishing boat Eilen, of Wick, was in a dangerous position to the west of Ruff of...
MAN AND BOY CUT OFF BY TIDE Walmer, Kent. At 3.39 on the afternoon of Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boatman returning from St. Margaret's with a fishing party had seen two people...