NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
Spain: the rescue fleet of the Cruz Roja del Mar includes more than 320 inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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South Western Division Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977,...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk: At 12 noon on 3rd November, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House, Great Yarmouth, asked for help in bringing off a sick man from the Cross Sands light vessel as the Trinity House tender was too far...
TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...
NOV. 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORK.
SHIRE. At about 7 P.M. information was received from the Withernsea coastguard that a vessel was making S.O.S. signals on her foghorn from the position of the Danish steamer Canada which had...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.20 on the night of the 25th of July, 1956, the Superintendent of the local Trinity House depot rang up to say that a man in the Gorton lightvessel was sick. He asked if the life-boat would take...
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
IN the year 1824 was established, in the City of London, mainly through the benevolent and untiring exertions of the late Sir WM. HILLARY, Bart., Mr. THOMAS WILSON, M.P., and others, the "ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOE THE PRESERVATION...
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