More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
Aberdeen ON-1248 (17-24): Apr12.Api23, MaylS May31 0-536: Apr12. Apr14. Apr23, Apr24.
Mayl 3 Abetdovey B-758: Mar3D. Mar31. May6(x2), MaylS. May25 Abersoch B-582: MayS. MayS. May16 Abarystwyth B-704: Mar27. Apr21. Mayl....
Category: Services
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
Bronze medallists: (I to r) Dannie McKay of Wick; he saved three men and their coble among rocks in a gale (full report: THE LIFEBOAT, winter '84185); David Clemence of llfracombe who pulled a yacht and her terrified occupant from rocks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meetings : Station*.
CLACTON.—On 2Ist February, Dr.
J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ended 3Qth September, 1924, showed that £200 had been collected...
Category: Branches
CRBSSWELL, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.—Signals of distress were observed at 3 A.M. on the 14th January during a S.S.E. wind and a moderate sea, the weather at the time being hazy. The Old Potter Life-boat was at once launched, proceeded in the...
£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...
Category: Articles
Mr R. Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian, and Ex-Coxswain Calum Macdonald, of Stornoway, Outer HebridesMr Calum Macdonald, former coxswain of the Stornoway lifeboat, was one of three people to receive the freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1953, the Spurn Point Coastguard reported that the S.S. Monkton Combe, of Bristol, had been in collision with another vessel, and that the Monkton Combe was trying to beach...