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Ensign
On the 15th April the South Shields coast- guard reported that a steamer was ashore at the end of the South pier. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan...
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CUT OFF BY TIDE At 5.52 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's mechanic that the police had reported two people cut off by the tide on Renney rocks. There was a moderate west-northwesterly breeze with a heavy...
Sea Bird
At 6.45 P.M.
on the 18th August information was received by telegram from the Light- keeper at Point of Ayr Light-house to the effect that a small yacht was in difficulties close by, flying signals of distress. The...
Moira Herd
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 8.30 p.m. on 29th January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the M.F.V. Moira Herd was aground at Red Beacon, Holm Head. The lifeboat James and Margaret Boyd proceeded to the casualty at...
Transport Equipment (Thorneycroft) Ltd
41 foot G.R.P. experimental Life-boat powered by Thornycroft T400 Diesels.
ft Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Limited, Marine Engine Division, Basingstoke, Hants. Tel: Basingstoke 3221..
Category: Advertisement
Bertha James
At 3.15 P.M. on the 10th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was flying a distress signal about three miles N.W. of the Shingles Bank. As a moderate north-easterly gale was blow- ing, the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched. She...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire—During the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1947, the Ministry of Food in Haverfordwest asked the life-boat to take food to Porthgain as the roads were impassable owing to heavy snowfalls. It was arranged that she...
Photographs of the Relief Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser
These photographs of the relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser were taken in Christchurch Bay while filming for the RNLI's latest film was in progress. All photos courtesy Malory Maltby. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hermod
The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura landed the crews of the schooner Hermod, of Marstal, six in number, on the 12th December, during a moderate N.N.E.
gale. The vessel at the time was bound from Troon to Lisbon, but was...
A Torbay Silver Medal
In December, 1944, the life-boat at Torbay put out one night in torrential rain with a gale blowing to the help of a tug and a small vessel which she had in tow. The life-boat crew was two men short. So dark was the night that they could see...
Category: Articles