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Corinne
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.5 a.m. on 24th September, 1965, the yacht Corinne was reported aground at Camber. One of her crew of three had been seen to swim ashore. There was a moderate southsouth- westerly breeze with a choppy...
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Category: Advertisement
A Generous Action
IT is pleasant to be able to publish the following letter from a little girl, who has evidently been trained, at her mother's knee, to admire the spirit of self-sacrifice which animates those who render personal service to humanity,...
Category: Donations
Mrs. E. Leeming
The Institution has suffered a severe loss by the death on February 2oth of Mrs. Eva Leeming, organising secretary for Greater London. She was appointed assistant organising secretary in 1926. In 1935 she became joint organising secretary,...
Category: Articles
Strathalford
APRIL 3 0 T H . - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.10 A.M. information was received that a vessel was in distress on the North side of Wick Bay. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat City of...
Letters
Dear Editor, Scanning the letters page of the summer 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, my eye was caught by the small photograph of the Selsey lifeboat towing a cabin cruiser. Though the doctored picture featuring fearless towrope-walker Max...
Category: Correspondence
Odd Man Out:
Odd man out: the new 20ft Boston Whaler Outrage, recently stationed at Poole and replacing a 17ft Dell Quay Dory. She is the only boat of this type in the RNLI fleet; she has a crew of three, a maximum speed of 30 knots and an endurance at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elizabeth
The life-boat Grace Darling achieved a gallant rescue near this station, during violent gale on the 11th of October.
On that day the Elizabeth, & sloop belong- ing to Sunderland, was forced on to the Pftrtin Steel rocks...
Catarina
ILFRACOMBE.—On the morning of the 29th December, the Go-Operator No. 2 Life-boat was launched, a message having been received at about half-past nine stating that a vessel, which proved to be the barque Catarina, of Savona, was in distress...
Marie Louise
HAYLING ISLAND. — The Life-boat Charlie and Adrian was launched at 5.50 A.M., on the 14th January, in response to signals of distress from the brigantine Marie Louise, winch, while on a voyage from Falmouth to Hamburg with a cargo of logwood...