JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...
SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
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On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
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Lv the spring of 1951 the Arts and Crafts Guild of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, held its annual exhibition. Included in it was a life-boat stall, with pictures of life-boats and a model being built of a 52-feet Barnett...
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THE sixth international life-boat con- ference was held at Ostend from July 23rd to the 25th, 1951, on the invita- tion of the Belgian Administration of Marine. M. H. de Vos, the Director General of the Administration, pre- sided. Fifteen...
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AT 9.25 on 25th October, 1967, Valentia radio informed the assistant honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station that the Greek motor vessel Razani was aground three quarters of a mile east south east of Black Head, Galway Bay....
Category: Services
Passenger ferry loses steering in storm Following an eight-hour night service to a passenger ferry in storm force winds and 35ft seas - said to be the worst conditions seen in the area for several years and causing the local harbour to be...
Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...
Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of January, 1959, a message was received from Niton radio that a Greek seaman aboard the S.S. Panaghia had been taken ill and needed medical attention. At 2.55 the life-boat...
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
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