Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 in her grandparents’ cottage in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of Thomasin and William Darling.
William was Lighthouse Keeper on Brownsman Island. Grace and her eight...
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Sometimes, there is no better way to show the RNLI’s people and purpose than with a photograph
Lifeboat crew member and award-winning photographer Nigel Millard has devoted 2 years to capturing...
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Following receipt of a cheque made out to theR.N.L.I.
for £100 from Southern Television Ltd., Commander P. Thornycroft, of T.T. Boat Designs Ltd., Bernbridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'I feel this needs some small...
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ENGLISH AND DANISH FISHING BOATS IN DISTRESS Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At half-past one in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, information was telephoned from Whitby to Runs- wick that the fishing boat Gem, belong- ing...
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...
At 10.52 p.m. on 25th March, 1967, news was received that the small power boat Tinkerbelle Peter had left Kew Bridge at 10.30 that morning bound for Wallersay Bay Marina and had not been seen since. At 5.12 a.m. on 26th March further...
Lengthy search but no survivors It is an unfortunate fact that some lifeboat services do not result in the rescue of survivors, a result which inevitably has an effect on the lifeboat crews but which does not affect their dedication to the...
By advices from Newfoundland, Nov. 14, it appears that the brig Emma, Captain WHITE, 80 days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight "on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles north of Flat Hock,...
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WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued that on the 30th of June, 1887, there were 218 stations, 166 being on the Atlantic, 44 on the Lakes, seven on the Pacific, and one at the Falls of the...
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WHILE ON TRIALS Reserve life-boat. At n a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the reserve life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put out from a ship- builders' yard at Rowhedge, Essex, in a light westerly breeze and a slight sea.
She was...
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