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SEVEN FISHING BOATS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Whitby, Yorkshire. On the afternoon of the 9th November, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of local fishing boats which were still at sea, and at 1.20 it was decided to launch the life-boat. At...
The westerly gale on the 18th February was one of the fiercest experienced at Stornoway for a long period, and the squalls at times attained hurricane force.
About 4.45 P.M. information was re- ceived that a fishing lugger,...
BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.—At 5.30 on the morning of 21st August it was reported that a vessel was drifting shorewards before a stiff gale from the W. The coxswain of the Robert William Life-boat lost no time in assembling his crew and taking...
Salcombe, Devonshire.— The motor trawler Tarascon, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks in Steeple Cove at about 10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1938. Her wireless was put out of order when she struck, and she had no rockets. There was a very heavy...
Seven of the fishing-boats belonging to Holy Island were at sea fishing on the 22nd January when the S.E. wind in- creased to a gale, and the sea became very heavy. At 8.30 A.M. the Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, manned by a scratch...
A Caithness fundraiser tells us what it’s like to be part of the RNLI family
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I’m deputy chairman of the Wick RNLI Fundraising Branch. I’ve been involved for over a decade. Wick’s quite a small...
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DUTCH TRAWLER ASHORE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.50 p.m. on Saturday the 31st of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler V.L.79, Maas of Vlaardingen, was ashore on the Saltscar rocks, three-quarters of...
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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FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Stornoway, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Enterprise of Stornoway had broken down one mile off...