Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
The Tyne class lifeboat Sir William Hillary is named by the Institution's recently retired chairman The Duke of Atholl at the Douglas quayside on 21 July 1989. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Roger Orams). - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 16TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE. At 9 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out to stand by the Dutch trawler Knikker - working from Fleetwood - which had on board survivors of the S.S. City of Bengal.
On the 24th December a strong northerly gale sprang up whilst the Redcar fishermen were at sea. All the boats managed to reach the shore with the exception of two, one of which, with some difficulty, got ashore at Marsk. The other boat...
On behalf of the RNLI, Stephen Mearns, coxswain of Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat, received the SBBNF Golden Anchor Award from Denis Thatcher. - View image in PDF
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Withernsea's new 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat is launched into the surf on exercise after her official service of dedication last June. photograph by courtesy of David E. Kirk. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
At 8.29 in the evening the Penmon coastguard reported that the sailing boat Margaret Elizabeth was in difficulties in the East Channel off Puffin Island. At 8.45 a further report came...
TOOK SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 3.15 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the nurse at Kilronan told the honorary secretary that a sick child was in need of medical treatment at a mainland hospital. The sea was slight with a gentle north-westerly wind...
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
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WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...