AT the end of November, 1920, the American three-masted sailing ship Marion Chilcott sailed from Denmark for St. Thomas, West Indies. When she was a few days out she met with very thick weather and strong south-easterly gales. She was driven...
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APRIL 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the morning it was reported that a vessel of an outward-bound convoy had gone ashore on the Binks. She appeared to be on her beam ends and was sounding distress signals on her...
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.—A life-boat station, in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has been established at New Brighton, on the south shore of the Mersey, near Liverpool, and a tubular lifeboat, on the plan of the late H....
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The History of the Plymouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 The second edition of one of Jeff Moriss's comprehensive local lifeboat guides, which brings the history of this particular station up to 1994.<...
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Hastings, Sussex. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had towed an unexploded bomb on to the beach at the fishing stage. After discussion with the...
Grosvenor Road Sea Anglers pulling their weight.. - View image in PDF
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The motor life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 17th January, as the honorary secretary had received a telephone message from the Kildonan coastguards, through the pilot house at Troon, that a small boat...
DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.
A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
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LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the...