SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
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IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...
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THE Board of Trade have recently issued their most interesting and well- arranged Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns relative to the many shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom...
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ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
ON 21st November last, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., paid a special visit to Scotland, as President of the Institution, to attend a Scottish National Life-boat Assembly in Edinburgh and a Life-boat Ball, on the same day, in...
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On the 2nd October signal guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel, while a moderate gale was blowing from W.S.W.
with a very heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at about 5.40 A.M. and found the s.s. Fal, of Falmouth,...
Ijmuiden - Cromer Strong links are being forged between Cromer lifeboat station on one side of the North Sea and the Netherlands lifeboat station at Ijmuiden on the other. Over the weekend of May 8 to 11, Ijmuiden lifeboat Johanna Louisa... - View image in PDF
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What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
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