SEAHAM.—On the 21st December the barque Excelsior, of Sunderland, was driven ashore in an E.N.E. gale in Bed Acres Bay, near Seaham. The Life-boat Sisters Carter of Harrogate was conveyed to the spot by land on her carriage, and launched...
SIDMOUTH.—At about 1 P.M. on the 7th August, the schooner Wave, of Guernsey, being at anchor in a dangerous position off this station, it blowing a gale from S., hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Rimington was launched, and...
COXSWAIN Lionel Derek Scott and Motor Mechanic Robert Gammon of the Mumbles have each been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testi- monial on vellum for the rescue of two school teachers whose dinghy capsized on the 16th of June, 1959...
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Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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The volume number for the March and June, 1968, issues of THE LIFE-BOAT should stay at Vol. XL and the pages, beginning with the March, 1968, number, should run from 313 to 360 and with the June, 1968, issue from 361 to 408. It is proposed...
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Graham Raines Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 on a service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988.
Crew Member Raines entered the water in conditions near the limit of operation for an Atlantic 21 to... - View image in PDF
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The Austin Motor Company, which is generously giving the Institution one shilling for each horse-power of every engine which it makes for a ship's life-boat, has now given £436: 8:-. The first gift of £240, presented to the...
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Life-boatmen took part in the meetings, on 2oth and 2ist February, celebrating the 25th birthday of the Red Army. Life-boatmen from Margate and Southend-on-Sea were at the chief celebration in the Albert Hall, London; men from Newhaven and-...
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On the 8th February, 1865, the Mary Hartley life-boat again went off, and ren- dered important services to the Norwegian schooner Anga, which was in a perilous position during a strong easterly wind, with signals of distress flying, between...
Cromarty.—30th November. A motor boat was in distress off Brora some thirty miles to the north, in a whole N.W. gale, but was taken in tow by a fishery cruiser. The life-boat's mast broke as she was running under sail before the gale....