On the 28th October, about noon, a vessel was observed to be fast drifting on Whitby Bocks. She, however, succeeded in clearing the rocks, and was driven with tremendous force on the beach. The wind was then blowing a hurricane from the...
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
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Mrs Ann Ritchie, honorary life governor of the Institution and donor of three lifeboats..
Category: Obituaries
A message was received by the honorary secretary of Bembridge lifeboat station on Saturday, July 30, to say that an engine fire, now extinguished, had caused complete steering loss on a 48' ketch on passage from Poole to Le Havre. A... - View image in PDF
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The picture above is for the Life-boat Christmas card, 1950. It is a famous rescue of seventy years ago. The Ramsgate life-boat is going out to the help of the barque Indian Chief, wrecked on the Long Sand on January 5th,...
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Mountbatten of Burma is hauled over by crane for her capsize and righting trial; she has already been hauled over more than 100 degrees and is still stable, the port tube of her sponson supporting the weight of the whole boat. -The roll bar... - View image in PDF
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William luckin and crew slip her moorings with the Atlantic 75 Daiy A/atef and crew standing by. - View image in PDF
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Joan Manning, district organising secretary (Midland Shires), was at Worcester to meet two other adventurers, Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, as they reached the end of a 100-mile sponsored canoe paddle from Welshpool. Adam and Graham,... - View image in PDF
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Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
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