SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
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The Motor Life- boat John and William Mudie was launched at 8.45 A.M. and again at 10.30 A.M. on 12th May, in a strong S.E. breeze with a very heavy sea and escorted into harbour the local fishing boats Golden Rule II. and Dawn.
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Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.—• At about 12.45 in the morning of the 27th of April, 1948, it was reported to the coastguard that the local motor fishing boat Largo Bay, which had gone out during the evening of the previous day had not...
Left to right: The Duke of York, Admiral Sir Lionel HaJsey, the Duchess of York, Madame Citroen, the Duchess of Portland, M. Citroen, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Mr. George F. Shee, Sir Godfrey Baring, the Hon. George Colville.. - View image in PDF
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Brigadier J. W. H. Gow, CBE DL, who was involved with the RNLI in Scotland for many years. Brigadier Gow was chairman of Glasgow branch from 1937 to 1973, from 1953 to 1985 he served on the committee of management, andbetween the years 1950...
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IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
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WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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Offshore is a new grade of RNLI membership, intended especially for those who use the sea - rates and details are on the following page.
Offshore members receive various benefits - including discounts on marine...
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