Crosshaven’s B class lifeboat Miss Betty is pictured searching for a man in Cork harbour after a car fell off the crossriver ferry on 8 March.
The driver of the car was recovered immediately, and the lifeboat launched to...
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Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
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The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
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The casualty's view of a rescue ... and thanks to the crew Having read the discussion 'Men behind the medals' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat, I wanted to comment on some of the points as seen through the eyes of a...
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• Wooden Boats and Men of Steel tells the story of Withernsea lifeboats from 1862 to 1913 when the station was closed and the lifeboat transferred to Easington. Paul Baker is very much involved with the present day Withernsea lifeboat...
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South-East England Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.7 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Norwegian vessel jfoika of Oslo had been in collision 13 miles east-south-east of Cromer and had been badly damaged. The...
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
Thursday, 3rd Nov. 1853. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Wreck and Reward, and Life-boat Sub-Committees.
Reported the deaths...
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Date Station 1960 Jan. 1 Scarborough ..
„ 2 Walton and Frinton „ 3 Kilmore „ 13 Filey ..
„ 16 Whitby „ 17 Swanage „ 19 Southend-on-Sea 20 Arklow „ 20 Tynemouth ..
„ 21 Gal way Bay...
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