JUNE 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rubber boat, with one person on board, had been seen four miles to the north of Foreness, but nothing was found except an empty case and some small pieces of wreckage. - Rewards, £4 19s..
THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services
Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
Category: Correspondence
THURSDAY, 3rd June, 1886.
His GRACE THE DUKE or NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
Although there was a damp and misty start to the day it did not deter about 5,000 people from joining in the fun at last autumn's annual Hartlepool harbour fete, which is organised by the local branch and its many friends. The highlight...
Category: Donations
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
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NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat Herbert...
Lives saved.
Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.
Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...
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Take a voyage into the briny blue from the comfort of your armchair, whether you’re yearning for adventure or looking to brush up on your nautical knowledge
Lighthouses: Beacons of the Sea
by David Ross
Category: Articles
THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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