Margate, Kent - At 2.9 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a small boat with two men aboard was seen drifting off Foreness Point with her outboard motor broken down. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 2...
Sir Charles H. Wilson, LL.D, F.S.A.A., of Leeds.
BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the...
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WHITBY.—The fishing-fleet were returning on the afternoon of the 6th February, but during their absence the sea on the bar had greatly increased.
The first two boats which arrived crossed with safety; but the third one was...
The Scheveningen motor life-boat ZeemansLoop rescuing nine men of a Scheveningen fishing boat, 9th October, 1938. The Secretary of th. North and South Holland Life-saving Society writes: " This was one of the finest and riskiest rescues... - View image in PDF
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.—On the morning of the 30th October the coxswain was told that the local fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with snow showers, and heavy seas were breaking over the pier exten- sions, and right out to the...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
NOVEMBER Ian Brown, former honorary treasurer of North Berwick station branch from 1971 to 1989..
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Feature: A day to remember HM The Queen opens The Lifeboat College Feature: The Survival Centre The RNLI's centre of excellence for sea survival training Lifeboat Lottery Letters 9 11 14 Lifeboats and lifeguards in action Including a...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 4 p.m.
on 26th April, 1967, the nurse on Tory Island informed the honorary secretary that an elderly man was seriously ill and needed to be moved to hospital on the mainland for treatment. The...
Lifeboatmen swim through surf to rescue sailor Port Talbot - South West Division Two crew members of the Port Talbot lifeboat station have received letters of thanks from the chief of operations after an unusual rescue which led to a life...