OVERDUE Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.47 a.m. on 26th August, 1965, the 28-foot fishing cruiser Gay Buccaneer was reported overdue on a passage from Southend to Wallasey Bay. Further inquiries were made and as there was no trace of the Gay...
CLYDE CLASS 70-003 LOA 71' : Beam 18' : Displacement 87 tonsLATEST OF the Clyde class lifeboats, 70-003, was named City of Bristol by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G.
Peglar, at Narrow Quay, Bristol, on...
Category: Inaugurations
DECEMBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 10.5 A.M. a vessel was reported to be ashore between Annan and Carlisle. Enquiries were made, and another message was received that the vessel was ashore at Powfoot, Annan. At 12.10...
Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...
Category: Obituaries
Election of Eight Honorary Life-Governors.
THE following have been elected Honorary Life-Governors of the Institu- tion in recognition of their long and distinguished services, and have been presented with a copy of the...
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AUGUST 9TH . - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.29 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a Hawker Hendley target-towing aeroplane had crashed into the sea. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
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Broken steering ON SATURDAY April 28, at 0700, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station that a fishing vessel, Anjonika, was disabled 13 miles to the south east. She had been on passage, in ballast, from...
Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
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Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.
Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save the lives of nine survivors from...
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