At about 9 P.M. on the 4th March the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel in the vicinity of the " Sow and Pigs" rocks, and about half-an-hour later she made signals indicating that something was wrong. The assembly signal...
LADY AXN, J.P., of Derby, who died on 17th January, at the age of eighty, had been a very great friend of the life-boat service for many years. She started her work for it in 1898, in the days of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and in 1911,...
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On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
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BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued...
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PENARTH.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 7th March, in answer to signals of distress, the Life-boat Joseph Denman was launched, and boarded the brig Crocodile, of Dartmouth, which vessel had got ashore on the west end of Cardiff sands. A strong gale was...
BLACKPOOL.—The schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, timber laden, from Wexford for Preston, struck on the Crusader Bank during a strong breeze from the N.W. and a rough sea on the 28th June. The Samuel Fletcher Life-boat put off to her...
WORKINGTON.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th December, the Life-boat Dodo was launched, signals of distress having been shown by the s.s. Lady Eglington, of and from Cardiff for Workington, with a cargo of coke, which had stranded on the north shore,...
During a strong W.S.W. gale with very heavy sea on the 26th December, signals of distress were observed to the westward.
In response the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched at 9 P.M. and pro- ceeded to the vessel,...
A t 11.15 P.M. on the 3rd August a large coble, named the Sapora Elizabeth, of Whitby, and manned by six hands, was in considerable danger of being driven on to a lee shore, owing to a wind suddenly springing up from...
FORMBY.—Two vessels being sighted in a very dangerous position on the Great Burbo Bank, having run aground in a fog, on the 21st March, the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched at 8.15 A.M., and after a long pull reached the vessels and...