D class saves three from holed yacht Helmsman Gary Miller and crew members Russell Wignall and Martin Jaggs of Lytham St Annes D class inshore lifeboat have received framed letters of thanks from the RNLI's chairman after the rescue of...
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
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CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people,...
On the 12th August, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, a telegram was received from the coastguard at Port Cranstal, about a mile south of the Point of Ayre, stating that a vessel was ashore there and that...
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.58 p.m. on Tuesday the 24th September, 1963, the East Pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties beyond Quern buoy and unable to make Ramsgate. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on...
By VICE-ADMIRAL E. Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
THE Life-Boat Journal having aided practical meteorology, the following memorandum, ' as a general answer to numerous observations and questions, may interest its readers: j and as...
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IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
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TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
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HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in...