At 10 o'clock on the same morning a vessel having been seen on the Brake Sand, the Bradford Life-boat again went out in tow of the steamer to render assistance if required. With the help of the steam-tug Challenger, the ship was towed...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze...
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.20 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pavlos of Beirut, which was on passage from Bremen to Greece, that she had...
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 11TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.35 in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a vessel at sea was signalling by morse lamp, and a few minutes later that the signal was for a doctor. The life-boat John and...
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1957 included: Knight Bachelor Air Commodore A. V. Harvey, C.B.E., M.P., a member of the Committee of...
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Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EI1JOV5 On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are...
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HOLYHEAD.—On the 5th November, at about 9.40 P.M., signals of distress were shown by the s.s. Rydal Hall, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the Clipera Bocks during a gale of wind and a heavy sea.
The Life-boat Thomas...