Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At noon on the 17th of November, 1960, the life- boat coxswain received a telephone message that a sick person on the island of Rhum needed hospital treatment urgently. There was a strong south- westerly wind with a...
An experimental igloo for IRB storage.. - View image in PDF
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On the 30th July the motor yacht Maudalric, of London, with seven people on board, had engine trouble when she was about a mile S.W.
of St. Aldhelm's Head. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a...
SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT PRINT "BALTIC EXCHANGE II" A SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED PRINT TO COMMEMORATE A FAMOUS YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT.
BY GORDON ASHTON IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT CREW The...
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A strong N.E. gale sprang up very sud- denly on the 5th February in the early morning when all the fishing cobles were at sea fishing. The alarm gun was fired at Cullercoats, but as all the Life-boat- men at that station were at sea the boat...
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL ON FIRE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. At 4.36 on the morning of the 17th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that a ship was...
Brixham Secondary School fifth formers (I. to r.) Jimmy Moore, Simon Foot and Steve Edwards, seen with Motor Mechanic Steve Bower, last term volunteered, as community work, to help clean Torbay lifeboat and boathouse every Friday afternoon:... - View image in PDF
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About 9.15 on the night of Sunday the 5th of August, 1951, they heard that the motor boat Two Sisters, with six people on board, had not arrived.
She had left the Copeland Islands for Donaghadee at 7.0...
Contents Volume 51 Number 505 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LTCDR BRIAN MILES RDMNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOY0 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the morning, on the 6th of July, 1950, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull lightvessel that she had an inju ed man needing help.
At 5.5 the life-boat City of Bradford...