FIVE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 26th October, 1962, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth to stand by local fishing vessels as they entered the harbour, and at...
RNLI volunteer David Gillingwater is the artist behind Oilskins: A Portrait of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Crew. At the time of writing Lifeboat, the exhibition was just getting under way in the Suffolk town’s Garage...
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Eastney, Hampshire. At 2.50 p.m.
on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a yacht had capsized three miles south-west of the station. At 3 o'clock the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh...
DEC. 21ST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
the coastguard telephoned the coxswain shortly after 5 P.M., reporting that distress sound signals could be heard. A light S.E.
wind was blowing, with a heavy swell, and...
• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At half past ten on the morning of the llth of February, 1950, the coastguard tele- phoned that a coble and a motor boat with a lighter laden with coal in tow, were in difficulties off the Tyne Harbour entrance....
REAR-ADMIRAL T. P. H. BEAMISH, C.B., who died on the 2nd of May at the age of-76, had been a member of the Committee of Management for twenty-seven years. He was elected to the Committee in 1924, served on the General Purposes and Boat...
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SEPT. 25TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
While homeward bound for Grimsby, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with Ash and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar. The weather was hazy with a heavy...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.
At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...