Small trawler sinks SHETLAND COASTGUARD received a mayday call at 0248 on Wednesday January 16, from the fishing vessel Brighter Morn saying that she had run aground on The Ord, a headland ten miles south east of Lerwick; she was holed and...
NEWSPOINT At this year's Annual General Meeting in London, reported elsewhere in this issue the Institution's Chairman, Sir Michael Vernon, reported yet another record year for lifeboat launches in the previous year - a report that...
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Mrs. Bella Mattison, the famous Cullercoats fishwife, who raised more than £8,000 for the R.N.L.I.j died in early January at the age of 92.She started collecting for the life-boat service in 1922. Mrs. Mattison, who left 10...
Category: Obituaries
Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
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On the 22nd Dec. the Life- boat Centurion, in answer to signals of dis- tress from the Gull Lightship, launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the brig Flossie, of Guernsey, ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Centurion remained by...
(Below) Sir Samuel Kelly, a 46' 9" Watson, the gift of Lady Mary Kelly of Crawfordsburn, County Down, arrives on station in May 1950. At that time her midships cockpit was open; an enclosed wheelhouse has since been... - View image in PDF
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Garry Windehunk—you can only see his legs—is not only supporting a world record number of 76 lyres tit a garage in Ramsey, his weightlifting feat is also supporting the Mountbatten of Burma lifeboat appeal to the tune of £500 in... - View image in PDF
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Four very experienced coxswains were in London last May to be awarded medals for bravery. For all of them, Michael Berry of Jersey, Michael Scales of Guernsey, Michael Grant of Selsey and Thomas Cocking of St Ives, it was at least their...
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
Doctor to baby AN URGENT MESSAGE was received by Niton Radio at 2323 on Sunday August 21, 1983, from a yacht in the Solent reporting that a baby girl aboard, 15 months old, was desperately ill. Solent Coastguard advised the yacht, which was...