A LADY living in a Suffolk village started to have a collecting boat for the Life-boat Service in May 1945. In Mav of this year she sent back the boat for "the sixth time, with £22 Ss. 7d. in it. Altogether in the three years she...
Category: Donations
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...
Battle royal The peace of the Glasgow afternoon was shattered by the sound of rocket and gunfire and the waiting crowd watched with tense expectation. A variety of lifeboats stood by waiting for the call as the Russian battle fleet closed in...
Category: Articles
RNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings takes his coastal voyage from Fishguard to SillothThe first half of 2001 was one of the busiest periods ever for the RNLI shoreworks team. Before setting sail northwards from Fishguard, a quick fook...
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.20 on the night of the 4th February, the coast watcher at Brownstown Head reported that a steam trawler was aground on a sandbank on the east side of Tramore Bay, and was showing flares. The...
THURSDAY, 13th October, 1904.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).
DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...
Category: Inaugurations
CRITICISMS have been expressed in recent years as to the great cost of the construction of the Institution's Life- boats. It would seem, from these, criticisms, that the public do not fully: understand either the nature of Life-boat{...
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Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...