Stornoway's Arun SirMaxAitken Is pictured from aboard the stranded merchant vessel Golf Star as the lifeboat stands by in worsening weather on 21 October 1995.
The Antiguan registered Golf Star was on passage from... - View image in PDF
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FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
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Weston-sup&r-Mare, Somerset. — At about 6 P.M. on the 9th December, 1937, the pier-master at Clevedon informed the life-boat station that the Walton Bay coastguard had had a vessel anchored off Hook Buoy under observation since the...
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..
The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura was called out during moderate weather on the 23rd December, and stood by the steam- trawler Goosander, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the rocks at Dulas Island. The vessel was successfully...
On the 9th of February, 1953, six of the crew of seven of the Fraserburgh life-boat lost their lives when the life- boat capsized near the harbour entrance in a heavy sea. For a full account of this disaster see page 469..
IN 1949 the Institution held 905 flag days. The number of people who gave was 6,500,000, and the sum given was £83,549.
That was forty-six more days than in 1948, but the number who gave fell by nearly 654,000 and...
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Last year the former coxswain ol the Plymouth life-boat, Mr. Peter White, left England with his family to take up a government appointment in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. His place has been taken by Mr. John Dare, the second...
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Ernest Pavey, who worked for the RNLI for 42 years, first as a travelling mechanic and machinery overseer in the North West, and finally as a machinery examiner at the Boreham Wood depot, was one of the recipients of Maundy Money at the... - View image in PDF
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When Chipstead (Kent) Sailing Club held its regatta on July 18 the entrance fees for two races were donated to the RNLI. With the profit from a souvenir stall, £79.86 was raised for Sevenoaks and District branch by the end of the... - View image in PDF
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