The organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day really know how to pull a crowd. This was the start last summer of the raft race as the numerous strangely clad contestants paddled past Teesmouth lifeboat. Also taking place that day was the now... - View image in PDF
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Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago
A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...
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THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
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In these 39 months of war our life-boats have rescued 4886 lives. That is more lives rescued in three years and three months of war than in the last 14 years of peace..
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THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
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THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
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SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the sailing barge Monarch, of Rochester, hoisted a distress signal. She had anchored in the Downs, but was dragging towards a submerged wreck. A moderate south-south...
Yesterday: Norman Clark launches from her carriage on a bleak day with snow on the ground and dusting 'The Law', rising majestically above the town. Lifeboat crew and shore helpers would have come mostly from fishing... - View image in PDF
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