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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
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The Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...
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The Whitby Lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson Is One of Only Two Pulling Boats Formerly In the Service of the Rnli Still In Existence She Was Built In 1918 By S E Sound
The Whitby lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, is one of only two pulling boats formerly in the service of the RNLI still in existence. She was built in 1918 by S. E. Sounders Ltd, in the Isle of Wight, at a cost of £1,615. Length 34'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cygnet
Wicklow.—During the evening of the 1st June, 1938, the motor yacht Cygnet, of Dublin, with a man and a boy on board, was caught by bad weather E.S.E. of Wicklow Head. Her steeringgear was damaged and she began to make water. A moderate N.E....
Lightfoot, of Newcastle
On the night of the 4th June the steamer Lightfoot, of Newcastle, bound in bal- last from Marburg, Germany, to the Tyne, ran aground about one hundred yards north of the coastguard station at Seaton Sluice in very thick weather.
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The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. — The Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief men to the Blackwater Lightvessel and the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse as the Commissioners' boats were not available. At 12.30 on the...
Two Rubber Dinghies
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.40 in the afternoon, on the 17th of July, 1950, the Skegness police reported two rubber dinghies adrift off Huttoft. At two o'clock the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze...
Flag Jack
Early on the morning of the 14th September the coxswain received a telephone message from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress east of the look-out. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and it was...
Queensferry- Scotland Division
Queensferry's Atlantic 21 lifeboat station is another which is easily found by reference to a famous structure, as clearly shown on the left! The station itself is at the very bottom of the photo, at the landward end of the pier to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Allurity
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that...
Avonglen
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 7th July the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden. The weather was fine, but later the S.W. wind freshened, and as there was a fairly heavy swell, it was decided...