WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
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IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.
It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The...
Category: Obituaries
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the Tongue lightvessel that the local trawler Volante had sunk three- quarters of a mile south of South Knock Buoy,...
On the morning of the 12th December, the brig Content, of Sunderland, coal laden, struck on a sunken wreck near Sizewell Bank. Becoming very leaky, it was necessary to ran for the shore, ' when, hoisting a flag of distress, the Thorpe |...
On the 12th June, during a heavy gale of wind from N.N.W., with rain, the schooner Azores Packet, of Falmouth, stranded in making for the harbour at St. Ives. The life-boat of the Institution was quickly launched, and rescued her crew of 4...
Dear Editor Further to your recent rescue account from Appledore, I thought your readers might be interested in the attached.
We acquired Boarding Boat 132 in 1994 after nearly 30 years' service at Appledore lifeboat...
Category: Correspondence
THE Council of the SOCIETY OF ARTS appointed a Committee in March, 1883, with the full concurrence of the Marine Department of the BOARD OP TRADE, to inquire into and consider the question of collision at sea, the scope of the in- quiry...
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Two fishing vessels A MOTOR FISHING VESSEL sinking off Sarclett Head on her way back from fishing grounds was reported to the honorary secretary of Wick lifeboat station at 0135 on Thursday May 21 by HM Coastguard. The lifeboat crew were...
THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
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