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A day rarely goes past without a lifeboat crew member having to skip a meal as they answer the call for help. So, this October, we’re asking you to host your own dinner party in support of our lifesavers: a fundraising fish...
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Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
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The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...
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Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.
Mowat and the Crew of the...
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On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
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Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
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WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...
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