1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF
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JULY 28TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.45 A.M. information was received from the Wick coastguard that a steamer was on fire N.N.W. of Strathy Head.
A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The...
HELP FOR CARPENTER Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 a.m. on 2Oth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter in a Greek motor vessel had severely injured his leg and needed medical treatment. The crew...
At about midnight on the 12th-13th September a telephone message was received from Gardenstown stating that the sailing boat Artistic of that place had struck on the rocks off the harbour, and the assistance of the Life-boat was required.<...
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefgures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 330-341.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 166 Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 127. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 31....
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During the evening of 3rd November, in a terrific S.W. gale, the s.s. Glaus Horn, of Lubeck, wag driven ashore on the Gaa Bank at the mouth of the river Tay. A telephone message was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria, stating that a...
JANUARY 22ND. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. a message was received at Ramsgate from the coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Brilliant had reported that the S.S. Rynana, of Limerick, was aground a mile west of the East Goodwins Light...
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
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Shaping the future It feels Like a long time since the RNLI announced it intended to build a training college in Poole. Construction started in 2002 and since then hundreds of men and women have laboured to make The Lifeboat College vision a...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of the bar. She carried a crew of nine and a pilot, and was bound with a cargo of coal from Ayr to...