LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
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The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Displays were set...
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Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...
" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." WE are not about to write a sermon, although we have commenced with a text; but the sentiment...
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PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
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FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
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MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...
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WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
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Date Station 1963 Jan. 4 Selsey „ 7 Humber „ 9 North Sunderland .
„ 12 Humber „ 12 Sunderland..
„ 12 Berwick „ 16 Humber „ 16 Scarborough „ 16 Whitby „ 17 Caister „ 18 Scarborough „ 18 Runswick ..
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 142 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 20 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1939 - 66,142 The Great Gale of 23rd November,...
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