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The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Book Reviews
• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...
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Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
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Beowulf
The RNLI has been asking some of those who have been on the receiving end of a lifeboat service to complete a questionnaire giving the details as seen from their viewpoint.
The scheme is completely voluntary, but a large...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th April, 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
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Pica
The RNLI's Rescue Survey - where people who have been rescued are given the opportunity to comment on the circumstances - is producing useful information both for the lifeboat service and for passing on as part of the Sea Safety...
A Boat
Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
A Boat (1)
Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To HAROLD J. BRADFORD, on his retirement, after serving for 6j years as coxswain, ~l years as second coxswain and 4| years as bowman of the Exmouth life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an ex-gratia grant.
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