ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats...
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Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
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Redcar, and Tees mouth, Yorkshire.— At 6.32 P.M. on the 25th October, 1939, a message was received from the Salt- burn coastguard, that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong, W.N.W. wind...
Redcar, and Tees mouth, Yorkshire.— At 6.32 P.M. on the 25th October, 1939, a message was received from the Salt- burn coastguard, that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong, W.N.W. wind...
Miss SUSAN JANICE PRICE, of Greaves County Secondary School, Lancaster, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.
Other Prizes The prizes for the best...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.11 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the motor vessel Clarity was reported to be dragging her anchor and running aground half-amile west of No. 4 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30)...
Standing into danger A MOTOR CRUISER, Temple Queen, unsure of her position in a dangerous area just north of the entrance to Strangford Lough was reported to Portaferry lifeboat station by Belfast Coastguard at1900 on Sunday May 17. It was a...
It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: June, 1984 Robert John Gammon, motor mechanic of The Mumbles lifeboat from 1947 to 1971 after serving for three months as assistant motor mechanic. Mr Gammon was awarded the Royal...
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This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
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DEC. 23RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported the motor trawler Purple Heather, of Lowestoft, ashore at Corton. The weather was very cold and foggy, with a heavy ground swell and a southwesterly breeze....