MONTROSE.—All the Ferryden fishingboats went to sea at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 8th January whilst the wind was blowing moderately from the W.S.W. In the course of the day the wind shifted to S.S.B., and as the sea was...
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Category: Services
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
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Contents Volume XLV Number 461 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Editor: JOAN DAVIES Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, West Quay Road,...
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Galway Bay. In the early hours of the 18th August, 1961, a message was received that a child in Kilronan was seriously ill, and the local doctor considered the child should be sent immediately to the hospital on the mainland. As no other...
NURSE ON BOARD At noon on 3ist March, 1964, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient required urgent medical attention on the mainland. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a choppy sea, and it was low water. The...
THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has...
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Jan. 1.—Voted 5?. to the master and crew of the steam-tug Telephone, of Falmouth, for saving five fishing-luggers, some of their nets, and their crews, numbering twenty men, which were in much danger off Exmouth during a heavy gale from the...
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The RNLI Inshore Rescue Boat at St Donat's With Other Inflatable Craft. - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetlands - At 9 p.m. on 6th August, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that an injured man on Foula Island urgently needed hospital attention. At 10.15 the life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane left her moorings...