DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.
PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...
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Persona Time of rescued from Launching. shipwreck.
3.45 p.m. S.S. Lestris, of Bruges. Sheringham Life-boat rendered assistance.
2.0 a.m. Steam trawler Braconmoor, of Aberdeen. Longhope...
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Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
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ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
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Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...
ON the night of the storm the coxswain of the life-boat entered the watch-house, clad in Ms black oilskin garments, and glittering with salt-water from top to too.
" There will be more work for us before long,...
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FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in Greater London and the Mid- lands, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 1.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1947, the Castletown coastguard reported that a boat entering Castletown Bay was burning a flare. She was close inshore and it was thought that she would reach the...