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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
John and Mary
Signals having been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel, and flares having been shown in the direction of the South Scroby Sand at about 1.45 A.M. on the 18th of March, the No. 1 Life-boat, Mark Lane, put off during a fresh E. by S. wind...
Rival
On the 28th December, at 4 A.M., large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand. The Life-boat Covent Garden was launched, and proceeded to the Cross Sand, on "which, a very heavy sea -was running, and found a brig ashore on...
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Calvijn (1)
Amble, Northumberland. At 8.10 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary of the North Sunderland station asked the Amble honorary secretary if the Amble life-boat would relieve the North Sunder- land life-boat,...
Perseus
In response to a telephone message from Thorpeness on the 17th September the No. 1 Life-boat City of Winchester was launched, great difficulty being experienced in getting the boat afloat owing to the heavy sea running and the bad state of...
Run to our rescue!
Entering a race or fun run in aid of the RNLI will help our lifesavers go to the rescue and boost your health. But if you’ve never run before or have fallen out of the habit, where do you...
Category: Articles
Strathyre
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th May information was received stating that a large fishing vessel was ashore on a dangerous reef to the west of the Pentland Skerries, where there is a very rapid tide race.
Although...
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Mr. Jack Hawkes
With the passing a few weeks ago of Mr. Jack Hawkes, of Ramsgate, the R,N.L.I. has lost one of the few remaining life-boatmen who could claim to have taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He was among the crew of the Ramsgate life...
Category: Obituaries