AUGUST 13TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A vessel had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but the life-boat was not needed.- Rewards, £3 18s..
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
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(Below) Mallaig's new 52ft Arun lifeboat The Davina and Charles Matthews Hunter at sea.. - View image in PDF
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DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
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THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be...
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RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—At day- break, on the 28th March, during a strong north-easterly wind and in a heavy sea, a large barque was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands with a signal of distress flying. The Life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...
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MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at...
OCTOBER 4TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. A steamer had gone aground north of Rudha Hunish, Skye, but she got off without help and went on her way.- Rewards, £7 9s. 3d..
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Preston pilot cutter St. Anne had asked for the help of the life-boat as she had broken...