Between 2 and 3 P.M. on the 24th December, a gale of wind suddenly sprang up from the S.E. by S., and the sea became very rough. Fifteen of the fishing yawls belonging to Arbroath were at sea at the time, and it was deemed advisable to...
THE committee of management of the Institution deeply regret the loss of two of their colleagues last spring..
Category: Obituaries
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 3.15, when the life- boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was...
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1957, the local doctor asked if the life-boat could be launched to take a patient urgently needing hospital treatment to the mainland. At 12.45 the life-boat Mabel...
The R.N.L.I. has accepted the offer of honorary membership of the British Helicopter Advisory Board at Redhill, Surrey..
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THE annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. is to take place at the Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1968, at 3 p.m..
Category: Meetings
Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF
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2 Shields North Country class lifeboat was typical of the lifeboats used around the time the Lifeboat journal was first published.. - View image in PDF
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A dredging- barge was in imminent danger of going down near the east end of this harbour during a whole gale of wind on the 9th March, her anchor having dragged and the sea breaking over her. The only hope for her crew of 4 men was the...
BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — On the morning of the 9th December, 1886, the barque Fremad, of Tonsberg, bound from West Bay, Nova Scotia, for Bristol, with deals and battens, showed signals of distress daring a heavy gale from the W. by N. The...