Nine rescued from ketch ashore on sands near Chichester Bar A difficult service which led to the rescue of nine people from a yacht aground on the East Pole Sands, just outside Chichester Harbour, has led to the chairman of the RNLI sending...
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
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FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...
TWO CASUALTIES TOWED TO SAFETY - CREW INJURED Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour...
Category: Services
SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.
on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...
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RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
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GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.
last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...
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Owing to the Rye disaster, and the Board of Trade Inquiry which was held on it, the issue of THE LIFEBOAT which should have been published in February has been delayed, as it was felt to be most important that it should contain the full...
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