In the summer 2002 issue of the Lifeboat magazine, we included a write-up of the rescue of a sea angler who was swept into stormy seas on 2 February 2002 at Porthcawl in Wales.
To make the rescue, Helmsman Nicholas Beale...
FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A fishing boat was overdue, but at the first search the life-boat could find nothing, and when she put out again she found the boat bottom up on the shore.
The only man on board her...
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
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The New Brighton life-boat carried out a very difficult service when, in a -rough sea, she brought a sick soldier ashore from a fort. He had to be lowered into the life-boat, lashed to his stretcher, while she was in violent motion all the...
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The Institution's income was £528,725. For the fourth year running it was bigger than ever before. Income exceeded expenditure by £229,600, but as soon as the war is over the money which the Institution is now able to put by...
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IN 1946 flag days were held by 808 of the Institution's branches, and 7,919,000 people contributed. This was over two million more than before the war, but three million fewer than in the record year of 1944. The sum contributed in these...
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ARBROATH.—Notice was received at about 7 A.M. on the 23rd of January, during a fresh E. wind and a very heavy I sea, that the fishing boat 106, of Arbroath, was in danger outside the harbour bar.
The People's Journal No...
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — On the 24th March, at about 1.15 P.M., a schooner was observed running for Bideford Harbour.
The wind was then blowing a gale from the N., with heavy snow squalls. When between the Fairway and Bar buoys...
At 11.45 P.M. on the 12th September the steamer Cape Colonna was seen to bs out of control when entering the river, owing to the strong N.E. wind, heavy sea and tide. She shortly afterwards grounded on the " Black Middens," and the...