YACHT AND THREE TOWED TO RAMSGATE Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.18 p.m. on Tuesday the 16th of July, 1963, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that the yacht K.N. was firing distress signals three quarters of a mile south of Ramsgate...
The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.
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Hundreds of Lives Saved... probably When Poole's Atlantic launched at 2050 on Easter Saturday this year the crew thought they were searching for red flares.
Instead, when they arrived at the scene in a dark and...
HARDY MARINE +44 (0)1692 408700 www.hardymarine.co.uk Buy one, train many Congratulations to all our friends at the RNLI on the delivery of ‘Robert S Ellsmoor’ – their second Hardy Commodore 42 training vessel.
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Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.14 on the night of the 11th of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed six to seven miles east-south-east of the Newarp lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henry...
The second Thames E class lifeboat was named at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. It was funded by Dr Patricia Baguley, but has been named Chelsea Pensioners recognition of the valuable support the In- Pensioners have given to the RNLI over more... - View image in PDF
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The No. 1 motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 10.30 A.M., on the 4th November, as conditions were bad and some of the local boats and cobles were at sea. A moderate east breeze was blowing, a rough sea was rolling into the...
Dover, Kent.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1954, a message was received from Lloyd's Signal Station that a dismasted yacht had been seen south of the South Goodwin lightvessel. At 2.15 the life-boat Southern Africa put...
MARCH 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 3.15 P.M. a ship’s boat was reported by the life-boat motor-mechanic to be adrift a mile from the shore, to the west of Sheringham. The coastguard at Skeldon Hill had also seen the boat...
POOLE.—The Life-boat Manley Wood, stationed at the entrance of this harbour, put to sea on the 12th March, during a strong gale at S.W., to assist the crew of a vessel reported to be ashore near Bourne- mouth. The ketch William Pitt was...