Trapped below THE RAMSGATE/CALAIS HOVERCRAFT advised HM Coastguard Dover Straits at 0925 on Thursday August 4, 1977, that distress flares had been seen on the eastern edge of the Goodwin Sands, near the East Goodwin Lightvesselwhere a cabin...
THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat Service will, we think, be interested in the following account from a school- master at Willesden of a lecture which he gave after distributing the illustrated leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat...
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Cromer, Norfolk. At i.io a.m.
on 16th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a message from the North Haisbro lightvessel that red flares had been sighted in a position six...
It is anticipated that not the least inte- resting and instructive page of our Journal will be that which is devoted to Corres- pondence. Knowledge gained by expe- rience and personal observation is always valuable, and especially is it so...
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FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.
JAN. 1,...
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During a strong W.S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 15th October signals of distress were seen on the French schooner Clara, and about the same time a tug reported that the Life-boat was required. The Coxswain of the Life-boat Charlie Medland...
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
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ON the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell, on passage from New- port, Monmouthshire, to Haulbowline, Co. Cork, encountered heavy weather off the Coningbeg lightvessel, and her bridge was damaged. Her master deci- ded to return to...
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