125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...
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HARWICH. — The Cork light - vessel having signalled on the 6th June, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 9.15 P.M., and on reaching the lightship ascertained that a vessel was on the West Bocks. A moderate breeze was...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About 8.30 on the night of the 5th of November, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, which the life-boat had escorted to the harbour the previous afternoon, had parted her moorings in...
EMPTY YACHT TOWED TO QUAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th June, 1962, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken adrift from her moorings at Knott End and was being carried out across...
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
NOVEMBER 13TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.15 in the morning it was learned from the local doctor that a woman suffering from severe gastric troublemust be taken at once to hospital. As no steamer would run for two days...
Maritime exhibition: the loan exhibition, Rule Britannia, at Sotheby's ran for the whole of January, was visited by thousands of people and raised over £10,000 for the RNLI.
It included items from over 150... - View image in PDF
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Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.
She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.<...
Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
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Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.
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