Desperately needed medical relief was brought to 10,000 people in villages marooned by floodwater, thanks to the RNLI's Mozambique rescue mission.
Crews ferried a doctor and logistician from the French medical agency... - View image in PDF
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At 7 P.M. on the 29th October the •watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the Middle Binks. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Union, of Portsmouth. She was...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Lymington police that a small boat, the Santa Anna, had capsized off Hurst Castle. Efforts...
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 1st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speed boat with five persons aboard, which had left Rhyl that morning, had not returned. At 10.20 a report was received...
JUNE 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.13 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a small boat, with two people on board, appeared to be in distress 2 miles S.W. by S. of the Torquay coastguard look-out hut. A W.N.W. breeze...
Galway Bay - At 7.30 p.m. on 25th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a report that distress flares had been seen about a mile south east of the North Aran light. At 8.5 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched.
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TOW FOR FRENCH TRAWLER WITH ENGINE TROUBLE St. Ives, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 12th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Etoile d'Arvor was disabled three miles west...
(Lett) Blyth's D class inflatable was vandalised on 1 August 1989 when the boathouse was entered illegally.
Station mechanic John Scott is pictured in front of the damaged lifeboat holding the knife used to puncture the... - View image in PDF
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On the 8th March, shortly before 1 A.M., signals of distress were shown from the barque Jupiter, of Liverpool, bound from Hamburg to the Tyne in ballast, -which, was ashore on the Sand Bigg, Goswick.
The Grace Darling...