Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
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Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...
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Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...
On the 26th De- cember, 1860, the brigantine -Owit^ of Fredeficfcshamn, from Bordeaux, laden wtft wteat and brandy, struck on a reef of fockd in Ardmore Bay, the wind blowing & gale from S.E. The Ardmore life-boat was soon manned by a...
THE Institution has presented its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to be hung on board the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, an inscribed Binocular Glass to the skipper, Mr. W. Brewster, and a monetary reward to each member of his crew for their...
Category: Services
OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2. The Cam had no steam and the...
No invitation had been sent to the Belgian Life-boat Service to attend the International Conference, because recent personal inquiries in Belgium had unfortunately failed to discover the existence of such an organisation, and because no...
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LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...