WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Irish lifeboat stations which took part in the Fastnet Race rescue operation last August were presented with special Fastnet awards by the Irish Federation of Marine Industries. The presentations were made by the Federation's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
Category: Articles
THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
Category: Articles
PIEL, LANCASHIRE.—The ship Depositor, of Halifax, N.S., in ballast, was seen in a dangerous position on the foul ground 2J miles S. of Walney lighthouse, on the morning of Sunday, the 26th October.
She had been in tow of a...
Any information? I am researching the disaster which overtook HM Submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay on 1 June 1939. At the time, it was the world's worst submarine loss in which 99 men perished.
If any readers have...
Category: Correspondence
Thank you...for saving our lives Received by Hastings and St Leonards branch following a service to three men aboard the yacht Martina on 13-14 July 1991: Gentlemen, Having had the chance to collect my thoughts on the events of last Saturday...
Category: Correspondence
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...
Category: Services
Howard Richings, the PNLI's Shoreworks Manager continues his voyage around the coast - here he looks at the stations from Exmouth to Fowey With the RNLI's 175th anniversary celebrations under way and the editor's insistence that...
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