On the 4th June, at 4 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the N. and misty rain, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid went out in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship. They proceeded through the Old Cudd Channel, and round to the...
A LONDON clergyman has sent seven shillings and sixpence to the St. Ives branch and writes : " Behind the gift is rather an inter- esting story. Three children, Vera Harris (aged 11), Pam Harris (aged 6), sisters, and Alan Gibson, their...
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Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the even- ing of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was on Red Sands. At 7.15 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The sea was rough, with a fresh...
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the WAVENEY class The first in a series of profiles of lifeboat classes The Waveney was the first of the RNLI's classes of 'fast lifeboat' and originated as a design operated by the US...
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THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
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Thought you would like a copy of this photo [main picture], shot from the lifeboat during the tow-in of the Norwegian boat Keltic in poor weather.
Would you have any footage of a Severn...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker British Rover, anchored two miles from the Tyne north pier, had a very sick man on board who ought...
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the 19th February, in a temporary break of an intensely thick fog, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw a large ship strike on Atherfleld ledge. He at once called the crew together and at about 7 P.M. the Life-boat...
THURSO. — The schooner Clarence G.Sinclair, of Wick, coal laden from the Tyne for Thurso, while lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, signalled for help, as a strong gale was blowing from the N.E., there was a heavy sea to which the vessel...
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...