AMPHIBIOUS CRAFT SANK Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an amphibious craft with five men on board, employed to make improvements to a sewage pipe for the local authorities, had...
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM GERMAN TRAWLER Wick, Caithness-shire. At 10.45 p.m.
on Tuesday the 13th of August, 1963, the Wick coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German trawler Hansaet of Hamburg had broken down...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1958, a message was received that a small motor boat was being driven ashore west of Portmagee. At 1.30 the life- boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea. There was a...
Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.
Two men and a woman from a university diving club... - View image in PDF
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These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 26TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 1.15 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be launched as a parachute had been seen in the sea two and a half miles to the north-east; the motor life-boat The Lord...
Helly Hansen is working with the RNLI to defeat drowning
The sailing gear icon will deliver safety messages to its customers, raise money, and supply the very best kit to the RNLI’s lifesavers. The new kit, due to go on...
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THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
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