AT 1.22 on the morning of 10th October, 1967, the honorary secretary of the Buckie life-boat station, Mr. A. J. I. Wilson, learnt from the coastguard that a fishing boat was aground on the West Muck rocks about a quarter of a mile north west...
Category: Services
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
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On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were ob- served on the North Gare Sand, at the en- trance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and taken to the spot;...
A LIFE-BOAT on temporary duty at the Weston-super-Mare station parted from her moorings on the afternoon of the 12th April, and was driven on to rocks and was so severely damaged that she has had to be written off as a total...
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THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries
At the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on the 17th March last, the EARL off SHAFTESBURY was present, and delivered the following interesting speech. He said:— " The Committee of this society has conferred ! upon me...
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On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
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THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND.— On the 24th August the Life-boat Joseph Anstice was launched to the assistance of the fishing vessel Gem, of Eyemouth, which had got ashore near that port during a strong breeze and heavy sea. The Life-boat, by timely...
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
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