AUGUST 25TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 9.42 at night the coastguard reported a message from the Eastbourne Angling Club that one of their boats, the motor boat E v e , was overdue and that another motor boat had been out,...
On 23 April 1994 the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway Association ran a special train, The Lifeboat Express, in aid of RNLI funds.. - View image in PDF
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PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
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Eight days afterwards, the same valu- able Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of the ship St. Johanner, of Dantzic, which had gone on the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the south.
They found the sea was...
Far right: Cullercoats Atlantic lifeboat near Whittey Bay. - View image in PDF
By Mrs E Halt, North Shields.. - View image in PDF
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Oil rig Orion went aground on the north west shore of Guernsey on February I .
On Friday February 10 it was thought she was adrift: in fact, she had parted from her barge, which had sunk, but was still held aground by her... - View image in PDF
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Clockwise from top right: Highland dancers, RNLI supporter Pat 'Pirate' Mulraney and children's entertainer Scott Lovatt all helped to make the open day a roaring success Photos: Hamish . - View image in PDF
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