Some members of Oxton and Claughton RNLI branch, Merseyside, before the start of a 'cheap and cheerful evening' at which they raised £444.
Since the branch was reformed in 1978 it has been responsible for... - View image in PDF
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fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).. - View image in PDF
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Contents Volume XLV Number 461 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Editor: JOAN DAVIES Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, West Quay Road,...
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ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
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AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly...
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.36 on the evening of the 14th of September, ] 957, the Foreland coastguard reported that a sailing boat appeared to be sig- nalling S.O.S. The life-boat Jesse Litmb was launched at 8.50 in a moder- ate sea....
SIX PEOPLE THROWN INTO SEA Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.57 on the morning of Tuesday the 27th of August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized and that another sailing dinghy...
NOVEMBER 25TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. During the afternoon of the 24th of November the Admiralty salvage officer requested that provisions and sundry small gear for salvage purposes should be taken to the S.S. Cantal. She had gone ashore...