The brig Lizzie, of Newport, Monmouthshire, was stranded on the eastern spit of Hayle Bar, during a violent storm from the north, with showers of hail, on the 20th March. The Oxford University life-boat Isis went out, in reply to her signals...
The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With The Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth On 22Nd July. - View image in PDF
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A fear- ful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss of life. After a most...
The Motor Life-Boat Returns A Journey of Twenty Miles at The Height of the Gale She Attempts To Get Alongside The Wreck Three Times She Is Swept Past By The Seas and Tide. - View image in PDF
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IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...
Blue Peter I I I , the present 16' D class inshore lifeboat on summer exercise. - View image in PDF
Crew members are out on exercise every Sunday morning from the beginning of April until the end of October.. - View image in PDF
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The Day After The Wreck of the Alba. - View image in PDF
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The Wexford Crew at The Time of the Fethard Disaster. - View image in PDF
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On the same day a very severe gale was experienced here, accompanied by a tremendous sea. About noon a vessel, which proved to be the schooner Mary, of North Shields, was seen inside the buoy off the Filey Brigg. She was dismasted and...