P.C. Arthur E. Farley and Sgt. Douglas H. Carter, of the Bournemouth police, who boarded a blazing motor-boat off Bournemouth on 19th May, 1968, and afterwards picked up three people. The service was described in the September issue of THE... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Last autumn, Year 4, 5 and 6 children from Grangetown Primary School in Sunderland enjoyed a Hit the Surf session with RNLI volunteers at Seaburn Beach. After a safety talk about flags and currents, they donned wetsuits and split into two...
Category: Articles
A narrow escape for Dutch couple at DunbarLifeboatmen and Coastguards hauled a crew of two to safety from a grounded yacht, seconds before falling rocks destroyed the vessel A state-of-the-art £100,000 yacht, Noblesse, was entering...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Life- boat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat...
Category: Services
ON the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow life-boat towed in the yacht Desina which had lost her rudder in heavy seas. One of the yacht's crew wrote to the coxswain: "On behalf of the two other crew members and myself, I wish to...
Category: Correspondence
CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour- master of Fxaserburgh, who died on the 30th of December, 1948, was joint honorary secretary of the life-boat station for over eleven years. He was appointed towards the end of 1936, and retired at the...
Category: Obituaries
On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
Category: Articles
Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...
Category: Articles