Towards the end of January, after the heaviest fall of snow for many years, the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire, was cut off by land from the rest of the world. Roads and railways were blocked; the telephone wires were down; but the sea...
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BURNHAM.—On the 14th October the coxswain of the Life-boat saw the smack Neath Trader, of Newport, Mon., ashore off Burnham during a heavy gale from the W.N.W. at about 10 o'clock A.M. The vessel was fall of water, and there were three...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.45 on the^morning of the 14th of November, 1956, the coxswain received a message from a local fisherman that two fishing cobles were at sea with the weather becoming worse. At 7.35 the life-boat Friendly Forester...
It’s time to get in training for a Reindeer Run near you (just think how many mince pies you’ll burn off in advance)!
This year, the RNLI’s most festive fundraiser will take place at 13 different venues in late November...
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O.N. 70-002 at Kirkwall - At 10.37 a.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that a lobster boat had broken down half a mile north east of Gault buoy.
The 1RB carried aboard the life-boat Grace...
Dover, Kent. At 6.10 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares two miles off Leathercoat Point. A Dutch tug had gone to her help and had connected a tow line....
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1952, the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported aground on the Dutchman Bank, and at 5.40 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
HAYLING ISLAND. — The Life-boat Charlie and Adrian was launched at 5.50 A.M., on the 14th January, in response to signals of distress from the brigantine Marie Louise, winch, while on a voyage from Falmouth to Hamburg with a cargo of logwood...
Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.
Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...
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MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...