ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
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MCH. 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The crew of the fishing boat Marie Suzanne, of Ostend, had abandoned their sinking vessel in a small boat, but they were picked up by the Dutch motor vessel Jutland and landed at Dover. - Rewards, £...
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...
A stormy westerly breeze was blowing in the early morning of the 27th January, and only three of the North Sunderland cobles ventured out, two or three from Beadnell being out.
During the forenoon the wind freshened until...
Amble, Northumberland - During the afternoon of loth August, 1966, the pleasure boat Kathleen was reported overdue. The life-boat Millie Walton left her moorings at 4.56 p.m. in a gale force westerly wind and a rough sea. It was low water....
RSPCA Bronze medal for lifeboatmen Nine crew members of West Kirby's D class inflatable lifeboat, the deputy launching authority and the station honorary secretary have been awarded the RSPCA's Bronze medal for rescuing two horses...
Coaster escort Another service which made the headlines was carried out by the Hastings and Eastbourne lifeboats on 14 November 1993.
The coaster Tern was badly down by the head and in severe difficulties 10 miles off the...
On the following morning the Life-boat went to the assistance of the stranded schooner, Anne Gill, of and for Goole, from London, laden with wheat. Her crew had launched their own boat, and two men had got into her, but she broke adrift and...
The fishing coble Robert and Mary had gone off fishing early in the morning of the 23rd March, and when returning at 8.30 A.M.
it was seen that her passage over the bar would be attended with consider- able peril for...
AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers held at Bristol on June 18th, of which a report appears on page 485, one of the speakers pointed out how much it would interest the workers of inland Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and he asked if...
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