NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
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Deaths In the past few months a number of lifeboatmen well known on the coast have passed away.
Ex-Coxswain Harold J. Hayles, B.E.M., who retired from the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat in September, 1971, died in...
Category: Obituaries
Holly Phillips has been a crew member of Poole lifeboat since October 1994.
Holly's appointment brought the number of serving women crew members to 100 for the first time in the RNLI's... - View image in PDF
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On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...
MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.
on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position...
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
The Life- boat Dunleary was launched at 6.5 P.M.
on the 30th January in response to a report, brought in by the mail-boat, that some of the fishing-boats belonging to Kingstown were in danger owing to the W.S.W. breeze...
During a heavy squall, on the 4th October, the fishing- boat Pride, of Pakefield, had her sails blown away, and hoisted a signal for assistance. The Life-boat James Leath was promptly launched, but before she reached the vessel the wind had...