On the 5th January, the barque Emma, of Shields, was driven on the Red- car rocks, near the River Tees, on the York- shire coast. The Redcar life-boat was at once manned and proceeded to the rescue of her crew. After getting twice alongside...
Dog watch: one of these two is Second Coxswain David Lemonius of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat. The other is an imposter named Willum.. - View image in PDF
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The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...
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Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...
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THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...
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Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
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Two members of the Teesmouth crew had a remarkable escape when they were washed out of the life-boat after she had gone to the help of an Indian steamer on I4th March, 1964.
At 9.40 that morning the honorary secretary of...
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How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
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Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
Kessingland.
On the night of the 11th December, with a gale blowing and a very heavy sea, the Kessingland Life-boat was called out to the rescue of a sailing smack, the A.J. W., of Rye, which had stranded on the Newcombe...