Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
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IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.
The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...
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At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
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Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
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ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...
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For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 7 A.M. on the morning of the llth January a man was badly injured on board the...
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IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FALMOUTH JANUARY 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL. The Falmouth motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare arrived at her station from thebuilding yard on the 7th of January, 1940. Twelve days later, on the 19th, she...