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Weymouth - South Division
Weymouth's sheltered and relatively deep harbour enables the station's Arun class to lie afloat - visible between the piles to the right of the harbour in the centre of the main photo.
The Arun can be seen more... - View image in PDF
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The John Neville Taylor Ceremony
John Neville Taylor The £1.3M Trent class lifeboat was named on Monday, 2 June 2003 in Poole.
The cost of the lifeboat was met by a substantial bequest from the estate of Mr John Taylor and other legacies. Mr Taylor... - View image in PDF
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Bronze Medal Award
The Lifeboat is pleased to announce the award of an RNLI Bronze Medal for Gallantry to the Coxswain of Dunbar lifeboat, 38-year-old Gary Fairbairn.
Gary and his crew endured a 42-mile passage in severe gale force 9 winds...
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Corsair
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Jubilee
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....
Vivid
SCARBOROUGH.—The dandy Vivid, of Scarborough, bound from West Hartlepool for Woodbridge with coal, being caught by a gale from the E.S.E. and a very heavy sea off Plamborough Head, on the llth March, returned to Scarborough and attempted to...
Die Manten
MONTROSE and ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—On the afternoon of the 23rd March, the brig Die Manten, of Arendal, Norway, bound thence to Leith with a cargo of pit props, arrived off Lunan Bay. The captain and 2 men put off from the vessel in a boat to try...
The S.S.. Northumberland
NEWBIGGIN.—At about 5 P.M. on, the 14th October the ss. Northumberland, of Newcastle, ran into the bay for shelter during a very severe storm and very high sea. In reply to signals of distress shown by her the Life-boat William Hop- Teinson...
Ebor
HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...