Shortly be- fore noon on the 15th November two fishing-yawls—the Bose and the Cornu- copia—belonging to St. Abbs, were seen from the harbour to be in great danger.
They had gone off fishing at dawn, but during the morning...
Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...
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Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
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ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Selsey, Sussex.—At 2.35 in the after- noon of the 20th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress between the eastern entrance to Chichester Harbour and Wittering Beach. A moderate south-westerly breeze...
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Coxswain William G. Sanders, who died in 1944 at the age of 84.. - View image in PDF
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Alan chips in Kind-hearted chip shop owner Alan Smith threw a lifeline to Kessock lifeboat in October when he donated an entire day's takings from his branch of Harry Ramsden's in Inverness. Alan hasn't forgotten that he owes...
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ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late...
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DECEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARF BOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
An Irish Lights steamer bad been bombed and sunk by German aeroplanes, when carryto ing reliefs for light-ships from Rosslare to the Coningbeg Light-vessel, but...
MARCH 2 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. An R.A.F. Hawker Hurricane aeroplane had been reported down in the sea about five miles off Dover, but nothing could be found.
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