THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.
In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...
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THE coxswain of the Tynemouth life- boat, Mr. P. Denham Christie, and the crew had the happy idea of presenting to the Seamen's Chapel of Christ Church, North Shields, which is the parish church of Tynemouth, a stained glass window. The...
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MONTROSE.—During a moderate breeze from the E.S.E. on the 12th January, the brig Bazar, of Oscarshamn, laden with pit props for the Tyne, was seen off Montrose, steering northwards, trying to clear the land, but evidently becoming embayed....
The cutter-yacht We're Here, of Burnham-ou-Crouch, was in grave peril of being lost on the Castle Rocks, Hastings, in the early morning of the 19th August. The yacht, with the owner, his wife, man, and two dogs on board, left Folkestone...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...
A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
neWs the latest launches, live! the rescue stories you read in the Lifeboat are but a handful of the thousands of RnLi lifeboat launches undertaken every year. now, the RnLi desktop pager allows computer users to keep up to date with every...
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THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
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