Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services
Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.
Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...
Category: Articles
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
The Penlee life-boat standing by near the lighthouse while the supplies are dropped. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The Case tractor, T29, was the third type L to be converted for use by the RNU by the Roadless Traction Co and had been stationed at Redcar from 1938 to 1957 and then at Filey until 1964. It was sold to a York farmer who used it for pulling... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kayaking for cash A group of kayaking instructors arrived at Poole in September to present the local lifeboat crew with money raised during a tough three-day expedition promoting safe sea kayaking.
The presention was an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MARCH 8TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10 1s. 6d..
JULY 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found, and thelife-boat was recalled by a patrol boat.- Rewards, £8 15s..