NOVEMBER 16TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. About 3.45 in the afternoon word was received that a motor fishing vessel had gone on the rocks near Cellardyke. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. There was a thick...
While the wind was blowing a gale on the 24th February, the Gull Light-ship fired signals of distress for a ship on the Goodwin, and the Van Kook life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the sands, when the ship Ingrie, of Amsterdam,...
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - WESTON - SUPER MARE, SOMERSET. During the evening a man on Kilve Reach in Bridgwater Bay saw signals fired from a motor cruiser. He told the police who reported to the coastguard. The information reached the life-boat...
OCTOBER 11TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen by the post of the Royal Observer Corps.
The motor life-boat The Princess Royal - Civil...
Flying the RNLI flag Three members of Port Talbot lifeboat crew represented the Institution at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Pauls Cathedral on 19 October 1994.
Ronald Jones, Peter Thomas and Robert Parker...
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WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...
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We are happy to announce that the following lifeboat people were awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee medals: Major General Ralph H. Farrant, CB, Chairman, RNLI, L. A. Austin, chief personnel officer, RNLI, A. W. Neal, deputy secretary...
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MARGATE.—On the 24th November, during a strong gale increasing to a hurricane from E.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and sleet, and a high sea, at about 9.30 p.n.,the Quiver Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and...