FEBRUARY 14TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At l.6 P.M. the coastguard reported the S.S. Dromara, of Belfast, in difficulties off Wick Bay, and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 1.30 P.M., taking a pilot with...
ON the 8th of October a whole gale was blowing at Dungeness, Kent, from South by East, a very heavy sea was running and it was raining very heavily.
A London barge, the Shamrock, bound with a cargo to the Isle of Wight,...
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DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...
— On the evening of the 26th March a tele- phone message was received from the Mumbles coastguard that two Greek steamers had been in collision off Breaksea, and one of them wanted immediate help. The life-boat Prince David was launched at 8...
The communications equipment fitted to the prototype Severn class. The left hand control panel is the MF radio, with the VHP radio third from the left. The remaining two panels are for an automated distress system operating on... - View image in PDF
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On the evening of the 30th January the barque Toronto, of Glas- i gow, while on a voyage from Liverpool to | Ardrossan, was wrecked off the latter port | during a strong breeze at S.W. The Life- i boat Fair Maid of Perth was launched as j...
Letters received by the Institution, and articles in the press, have shown that many people think the Ministry of Labour is taking from the Life-boat Service for the fighting forces men whom the Institution wishes to keep. That is not so....
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Recovery at Padstow: watching the keel like a hawk, head launcher Pat Raby waits for the right moment to throw the heaving line. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Mark Dancy. - View image in PDF
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Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...
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On the 19th October, the^same life-boat put off', during stormy. weather, to the rescue of the crew of a vessel which was observed to be stranded on the Long Bank.
On arriving alongside, they found that the only...