All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a... - View image in PDF
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Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard reported that t'u s.s. Mayflower, of Liverpool, loaded with stone, on passage from Penmaenmawr, North Wales, to Liverpool, had gone aground on East Hoyle Bank at 2 A...
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 11.50 A.M. information was received from a resident of Ulva, through the police, that an unknown vessel had been seen drifting towards the Island of Little Colonsay, and at 12.55 P.M. themotor...
DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the s.s.
Bencmachan of Leith was making for Spurn with an...
About 7.30 A.M. on the 14th March, during a fog and misty rain, the s.s. Copeland, of Glasgow, bound from London to Southampton, stranded at Eastborough Head. In answer to signals of distress from the Owers Light-vessel and the steamer, the...
I860: The launching of Silloth's first lifeboat, Angela and Hannah, and . . .. - View image in PDF
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The Lieutenant-Governor (Major-General Lord Ruthven) with the Life-boat's Crew.. - View image in PDF
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Note in background crane which will capsize the Rather for her righting trial and, on her stem, dial to indicate angle of heel when engine shut-down switch operates.. - View image in PDF
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.30 in the morning on the 10th of February, 1950, the harbour authorities reportedthat the s.s. Ribblebank, of Liverpool, was on the Lighthouse bank. Later she was reported to be loaded with 400 tons of calcium...
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