NOVEMBER 24TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.50 in the morning a message was received at Shoreham Harbour from the coastguard that H.M. Trawler Avanturine, which had been left at anchor by the Newhaven life-boat off Newhaven, as described...
FEBRUARY 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out and all the boats had returned by 1 P.M. with the exception of two, Success and Provider. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with seas breaking three-quarters of...
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
• Wooden Boats and Men of Steel tells the story of Withernsea lifeboats from 1862 to 1913 when the station was closed and the lifeboat transferred to Easington. Paul Baker is very much involved with the present day Withernsea lifeboat...
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Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...
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IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
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IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
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Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...