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Lifeboat Services from Page 191
Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.
A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...
Category: Services
Jo-Anne (1)
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
Pounds Per Head
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seafarers' Service
Lifeboatmen from Skegness formed the RNLI's colour party at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 October 1992. Coxswain/mechanic Paul Martin, the colour bearer, escorted by crew members Raymond... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
A LIMITED EDITION
I was interested to read in the autumn issue about the City of Sheffield’s return to the city that funded her. I was involved in raising an amount towards that boat when I was an honorary organiser in West...
Category: Articles
Sir William Priestley
Sir William Priestley, J.P., who died on March 25, a few days before his seventy-third birthday, was one of the Institution's most generous and in- fluential friends in the north of England.
The head of a big business...
Category: Obituaries
A Vessel (2)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Olga
Trial of patience A MESSAGE from the 1,100-ton coastal tanker Olga, on passage from Liverpool to Bergen, stating she was aground on Bhride Island and that the crew of 10 aboard required assistance, was intercepted by Portpatrick radio...
Trawler Inquiry Findings
The inquiry into the loss of the trawler Cctsita and the subsequent drownin g of her crew of two opened at Brixham, Devon, on 22nd January, 1968.
The following witnesses gave evidence on behalf of the R.N.L.I.: Mr. F. W....
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