AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...
When you're saving lives second best won't do You need the best - a rigid hull inflatable as now adopted by the RNLI.
Extensive testing has shown the superiority of this design in rescue work over the pure...
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RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, is taking part in the Flora London Marathon on 18 April to raise funds for the lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.43 on the morning of the 14th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified coaster was aground near Barrow no. 6 buoy and was believed to need help. A strong north-east was...
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 1st March, at about 3 A.M., a light was seen for a short time, apparently from a vessel off Rhosneigir. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Lingham assembled, and the boat was got out, but the light disappeared, and...
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. — The lugger Maria Jane, of Peel, left the harbour at about 4 p.m., on the 26th March, for mackerel fishing off the coast of Ireland.
A strong breeze was then blowing from N.N.W. and the sea was rough....
Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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