Fire A CABIN CRUISER on fire with two men and a boy on board was reported to the honorary secretary of The Mumbles lifeboat station by Swansea Coastguard at 1614 on Sunday August 21, 1983.
Maroons were fired and at 1618 The...
FISHING VESSEL STRIKES PIER IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 1st November, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that several fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 3.0...
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
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HARWICH.—It having been reported by the crew of a smack that a vessel was ashore on the Cork Sands, the new steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland proceeded to sea at 12.30 A.M., on the 8th October, taking in tow the reserve Life-boat...
At 2.40 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Rocka- Nore. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 2.46 in a south westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was high...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1950, the f.shtng coble Pioneer, with a crew of three, was reported missing. Later on she was seen by the coxswain about three miles north of the life-boat station,...
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
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Treat for Derek: A Dundee boy handed over £16.50 lifeboat and was rewarded with every schoolboy's dream—the chance to join the crew of a lifeboat for the morning. Derek Arthur, aged 12, a pupil at Morgan Academy, has been collecting... - View image in PDF
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 19th of January,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel in tow of a tug had broken adrift three miles off Maplin Head. At 4.38 the life-boat Greater London...
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