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A Rescue at Gibraltar
WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..
Category: Donations
London
MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.
on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position...
Dashing Wave
Information reached Harwich about 4.20 P.M. on the 21st January that a vessel was on the Cork Sands, amd the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow proceeded to her.
They found she was the schooner Dashing Wave, of Fowey, bound...
‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
A Service By the Margate Life-Boat to the German Cadet Training Ship Pamir
(See the Life-boat, vol. XXXIII, page 334.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat (1)
Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...
Volant and Queen
THURSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the W., veering to N.E., between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 21st March, the schooners Volant, of Wick, and Queen, of Inverness, which were both lying far out in the roadstead,...
Shoreline
WHEN PLANNING the Shoreline appeal to fund a 37'6" Rother Lifeboat to be named RNLB Shoreline, the first target set was £100,000 by the time the boat is ready to launch for her initial trials.
That target is...
Category: Articles
Devon Brook
AUGUST 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.14 in the afternoon the Blyth coastguard reported that the Devon Brook was ashore on the rocks a short distance from the east pier in a very bad position. She was bound from...