Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1952, a fisherman at Burnmouth tele- phoned that the motor fishing boat Devotion, of Burnmouth, with a crew of four, was flying a distress signal three miles...
NEEDED MEDICAL AID Clovelly, North Devon. At 11.45 p.m.
on 29th October, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by a Bideford doctor that a woman on Lundy Island needed immediate medical attention. At 12.30 a.m. the...
The Life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 27th September to the assistance of a seaplane belonging to the Government.
The seaplane had come from Sheerness and been beached near Hasborough...
Trailer trainer: a caravan fitted out as a classroom to provide lifeboat crews with specialist training in communications, radar plotting and navigation was presented to the RNLI by Dr Ronald Hope, Director of the Marine Society on June 27... - View image in PDF
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A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in Lantivet Bay, about three miles from Fowey...
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THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...
IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...
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THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
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