On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...
To commemorate the RNLI's 160th year, an amateur radio station was set up for a weekend in August at Clacton lifeboat station, thanks to the co-operation of the crew and honorary secretary. Its 12 operators were drawn from Harlow Radio... - View image in PDF
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DEC. 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKboats SHIRE. Flares had been reported, but it was learned later that they had been dropped by aeroplanes on night exercises, - Rewards, £20 12s. 6d..
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 8.44 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals in Spitway. The sea was rough and a moderate breeze was blowing from the south-south-west, when at 8.56 the...
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.
those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...
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Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope.
THE Institution has lost, in one week, two very distinguished Scottish coxswains. Ex-Coxswain Walter Fair- bairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw,...
Category: Obituaries
On the- 29th April, the schooner John 0. Wade, of Newry, was stranded off Troon Harbour, N.B. It was blowing a heavy N.W. gale at the time.
The Glasgow Workmen's life-boat put off, and, after some difficulty, succeeded...
CAISTER NORFOLK.—On the 1st Deiember the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched at 6.30 P.M., and rendered some assistance to the schooner Brothers, Harwich, which had stranded on the Middle Barber Sand. The vessel ultimately floated,...
STONEHAVEN—On the 19th October the Life-boat Star, stationed here, took off the crew of 4 men of the Prussian schooner Katerina, which had anchored in a dangerous position close to the rocks off the port..