Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.14 on the morning of the 20th of August, 1957, the Wykc Reg-is coastguard telephoned a report that the yacht Rona had developed a bad leak one mile west of St. Alban's Head. The life-boat Wil- liam and Clara...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized about a mile and a half off Chandlers Corner, Lancing, and that her crew were...
Rhyl, Flintshire. On the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary saw that a yacht, which had altered course on approaching Rhyl harbour entrance, appeared to be blown down wind out of control.
There was a...
Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
HISTORIC LIFEBOATS
In the winter issue, we listed some places to see historic lifeboats. There are a lot of them out there, and we couldn’t mention them all, but some of you wrote in with further...
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The first steps inside the new National Collection of lifeboats tell you that this is something very special. Here, for the first time anywhere in the world, the history of a nation's lifeboats and the men who took them to sea is laid...
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Disabled yacht A YACHT AT ANCHOR near Lune No 1 Buoy, Morecambe Bay, but having a rough time was reported to Fleetwood Coastguard by an auxiliary coastguard at Knott End at 1525 on Wednesday September 10, 1980. It was learned that the yacht...
IN the last issue of The Life-boat a review was published of Modern Motor Life-boa's of the Institution, by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., who has been the Institution's con- sulting naval architect for the past twenty-eight...
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Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...
Ten hour service to burning coaster Yarmouth South East Division The coxswain and crew of Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat John and Joy Wade have received a letter of thanks from the Director of the RNLI for their part in a 10-hour service...