Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
OCTOBER 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At about 1.50 A.M. the naval authorities telephoned that the auxiliary patrolmotor boat Noel II, with four men on board, was having trouble with her engine and was adrift off the Heugh. A...
DEC. 23RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 1 P.M. it was reported that three fishing boats had gone to sea at 5 A.M. Two had come back at about 11 A.M. but the third, Malvina, with a crew of three, was missing. A light N.W. wind was blowing with a...
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.43 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a small vessel in distress. Twelve minutes later the life-boat The Princess Royal—- Civil Service No. 7, was launched. A moderate gale was...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1950,the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Skylark, of Shoreham, working from Eastbourne, had not returned from early morning fishing.
As the...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an outboard motor had broken down near the Brake buoy. Her crew of three were trying to row to the...
Glanvill Enthoven INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS In our 75th anniversary year, we send greetings to all our clients including the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
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Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
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