LAST February was one of the stormiest Februaries on record. During the month there were over fifty launches on service, and nearly forty lives were saved. The two services, however, which most deserve to be recorded are two, both by Motor...
Category: Services
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
Category: Services
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 9 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, the honorary secretary intercepted a radio message from the Norwegian liner Braemar, of Oslo, requesting that a helicopter take off a sick man. The coastguard, however, was unable...
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...
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Karemma ashore after her crew of five had been taken off by the 52' Barnett lifeboat Ramsay- Dyce on her last service at Aberdeen . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A fear- ful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss of life. After a most...
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It Moosed be a mistake! No-one in the RNLI's membership department had an inkling that Mr A. Moose of the Station Hotel, Hurworth Place near Darlington was anything other than a normal, valued member - and the landlord of the Station...
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WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Life- boat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat...
Category: Services