Cloughey, Newcastle, and Ardglass, Co.
Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.
John's...
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
Category: Articles
Around and about the RNLI Jam on the Bread! Two stars from the popular BBC TV series 'Bread' drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 50th national lottery, which took place on 31 July 1990.
Nellie Boswell and...
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It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and encouragement to others " to go and do likewise;" and perhaps...
ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...
Category: Obituaries
FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.25 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1948, the coastguard re- ported a vessel apparently aground close iivto the south east of the look-out, and the motor life-boat Louise...
AT 10.8 on the night of the 8th of March, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Campbeltown station, Mr. A. P. MacGrory, that the S.S. Gracehill, of Campbeltown, was ashore on Sanda island in thick fog and needed help....
Category: Services
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.33 p.m.
on igth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht half a mile east of the harbour entrance had run aground and had fired distress signals. The...