On the following day a brig was seen burning tar-barrels very near the breakers on Yarmouth Beach, during a fresh wind from E. by S. The Yarmouth No. 2 Life- boat, the Duff, was at once taken to the spot, and, after much difficulty, was...
Rosslare Harbour, Wexford - At 1.45 p.m. on 7th November, 1966, the Tuskar Rock lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a submerged cabin cruiser had been reported in the vicinity of the rock. The life-boat Douglas Hyde...
Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Northman of Aber- deen was aground off the Peterhead north breakwater. Ten minutes later the life-boat Julia...
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
MARCH 23RD. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
An S.O.S. had been received from about six miles off Tod Head, and it is believed that a destroyer and a trawler had been in collision, but nothing could be found.
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The Pamir and the Margate life-boat (See page 334). - View image in PDF
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IN the last number of The Life-boat in the account of the service by the Walton and Frinton life-beat to the London barge Esterel, the date of the service was given as 4th November, 1939.
It sheuld have been 14th...
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Sir William Milliyan presenting the vellum to the Mayor.. - View image in PDF
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The Life-boat and Steamer used in the Rescue Scene.. - View image in PDF
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