Any lifeboat launch can be risky, and a carriage launch from an exposed beach is particularly so. Overcoming a problem and completing a service is part of the tradition of the lifeboat service - well illustrated by an incident at Dungeness...
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
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At 2.35 P.M. on the 19th May a telephone message was received stating a yacht was in distress on the Buxey Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was promptly summoned, and the Life-boat, under motor power...
Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the evening of the 4th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Mille Heering of Copenhagen would be off Penlee about 11.45 and that medical help was...
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF TANKER Berwick-upon-Tweed,Northumberland.
At 8.10 on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, a message was received from the Lloyd's local agent that the tanker Aptity of London, bound from Rotterdam to...
100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
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The brigantine Waterloo, of Cork, bound from that place to Bristol, j was stranded on the Northam Sands at I 2 A.M. on the 6th November. A fresh ! gale from W.N.W. was blowing at the ! time. The Waterloo, having no means of i making...
TYBELLA, Co. DOWH. — On the 14th August the Memorial Life-boat, ia reply to a signal shown from the ship Henry, of St. John, N.B., during a S. wind and a heavy sea, was launched, and at the master's request brought ashore five fishermen...
BBIDLINGTON. — On the 3rd February a signal of distress was observed from the lugger Garibaldi of Gravelines, which was riding in the roadstead about a mile and a half south of the harbour. The Lifeboat William John and Frances was launched...
The Life-boat WakefiM ren- ! dered good service to the schooner Cale- l donia, of Preston, on the 27th April by ; remaining by that vessel till out of danger, i the Caledonia having gone ashore on the Horse Bank, and striking heavily till...