— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...
AUGUST 26TH. SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British airman had come down by parachute, but he was rescued by a fisherman. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d..
Bronze medals awarded by the RNLI to Mr. Patrick O'Connor of Meenogahane and Sergeant William McCarthy, neither in the regular service of the Institution, were presented together with miniatures and vellums at a happy gathering in Adare...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.20 •early on the morning of the 17th of .September, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore below Tynemouth •Castle, fifty yards north of Tyne north pier. Visibility was...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously...
(Left) Donaghadee's Arun lies snugly stern-to the South Pier just inside the harbour entrance - which is open to the north east.
The way in which the harbour shoals is very evident, and regular dredging is needed to... - View image in PDF
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Leslie Aplin, treasurer of Exeter branch from 1950- 1963, then treasurer of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch til 1978. He was then elected president and continued as treasurer and organiser of the Exmouth Display Centre until ill-health...
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IN 1950 fifty-five golf clubs held competitions in aid of the Life-boat Service, as compared with sixty in 1949, and the Institution received from them £275, which was £2 more than in 1949..
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TWO LIFE-BOATS ESCORT COBLES Amble, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the weather deteriorated rapidly.
A north-north-easterly gale sprang up, and the sea became very...
Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EIUOVS ITS WORK 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,...
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