ESCORT FOR TWO Buckle, Banffshire. At 4.55 p.m. on 16th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the seine net fishing boat Heathery Brae was in difficulties eight miles north-north-east of Buckie. The sea was very...
MEDICAL CALL At 7.50 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would convey a patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other boat was available. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary...
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
On the 14th Nov. the Ramsgate Life- boat put off, during a fresh gale from the E., to the assistance of a vessel which had gone ashore on the Kentish Knock. After some trouble, owing to the very heavy sea, the Life-boat reached the vessel,...
THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
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SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 8th February the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched to the aid of the three-masted schooner Kyanite, of Guernsey, which was in a position of much peril, having parted from both her anchors during a strong westerly gale...
PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Broughty Castle, of Bamsey, Jaden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser...
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat and the Brothers, of Yarmouth, on the 30th May, 1938. (See page 548.). - View image in PDF
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Mrs. Bella Mattison, the Cullercoats fisherwife who has collected £2,000 for the Institution, with the Cullercoats coxswain (right) and second-coxswain. - View image in PDF
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The Lizard motor life-boat coming ashore with the crew of the D. L. Harper.. - View image in PDF
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