ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...
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JANUARY 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A quarter of an hour after midnight a message came from Dover that two motor boats were aground near the East Goodwins, 2 1/4 miles from the No. 2 Buoy. The motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...
The enchanting poem 'Footprints' has touched many lives with its tender and simple message of hope. Evoking a powerful image of Cod carrying us through times of trouble, this deeply moving passage has inspired the master goldsmiths...
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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 February 1989, show that during 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,197 times (an average of more than 11 launches a day) More than 1,338 lives were saved (an average of 3.7 people...
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More than 20 chartered surveyors and their office colleagues from Blackpool chose to raise money for the RNLI and their own benevolent fund by raising themselves a foot above the ground on stilts and completing a half-mile course down the... - View image in PDF
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Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
Yacht saved in darkness SEVERE GALE TO STORM FORCE SOUthsouth- westerly winds were blowing on the night of Sunday May 25 when a message reached the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station that a 24ft yacht with auxiliary engine, Star...
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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