Thurso, Caithness-shire. — The Grimsby trawler Thomas Thresher, bound for Iceland, put into Scrabster harbour at 9 P.M. on the 2nd April to get medical attention for one of her crew.
She left again at 11.15 P.M. and shortly...
Swanage, Dorset. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1958, a boy told the coxswain that two bathers were making little headway in their efforts to reach the shore a hundred and fifty yards north-north-east of Peveril Point. They...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th January a telephone message was re- ceived from Newcastle stating that a schooner had been sighted to the south- westward drifting in an apparently disabled condition. A look-out was kept and...
Contents Volume XLIX Number 491 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
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Going out to the schooner Rambler of Folkestone in a whole gale with a very heavy sea. She rescued four of the crew of five who had taken to the rigging. Shortly afterwards the schooner's masts went by the board.. - View image in PDF
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Walter Stanley (Jim) Firman, Scarborough tractor driver from 1952 to 1969, after serving as tractor driver helper from 1949 to 1952; during that time he was never known to miss launch or recovery. On his retirement at 65, Jim Firman sold...
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From the painting presented to the Museum by his daughter, Lady Hicks. - View image in PDF
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Amble, Northumberland.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing vessel Blossom, of Wick, had broken down in Druridge Bay. The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station...