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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Storm-disabled sloop THE DUTY OFFICER at the Needles Coastguard saw a red distress flare to westward, estimated two to three miles distant, at 0108 on Sunday, September 14, 1975. The honorary secretary of Yarmouth,...
Category: Services
Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
A Speed Boat
RUNAWAY SPEEDBOAT THE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, inshore rescue boat had an unusual service on l l th August when 'the Coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was going round in circles' about one and a half miles...
Nathaneli
NEW BRIGHTON.—Bockets were fired from Blundle Sands and New Brighton Coastguard stations on the evening of the 3rd December, denoting that a vessel was in danger, and that the services of the Life-boat were required. The Willie and Arthur...
Mary Roberts
After watching during the night, the coxswain of the Life-boat observed at 8 o'clock on the following morning a signal of distress, displayed from a schooner at anchor in the Bay. The wind was still blowing a heavy gale from N.N.W., and...
Veravia, of London
Dungeness, Kent.—At 2.15 P.M. on the 13th February, 1938, a local fisherman and the coastguard reported that a barge at anchor in East Bay was flying a distress signal. The sea was very rough, with a moderate N.N.E. gale blowing, and snow...
The S.S. Fawn
STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the...
The Whaler Brodrene Saevik
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the whaler Brodrene Sae- vik of Alesund, Norway, had broken down with engine trouble three miles east of Noss Head....
Fundraising
A light in the darkness As announced in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, the RNLI ran an advertisement on selected cable and satellite TV channels during April.
Filmed as if from the perspective of a casualty...
Category: Articles