Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out...
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Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 November 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,390 times (an average of nearly 14 launches a day) 1,264 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some...
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MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.
A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with...
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In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1893, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in the Chair, the...
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