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Model Made By Mr R Mortlock
Model made by Mr R. Mortlock, a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Societv, of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat John Fison stationed at Harwich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (188)
DECEMBER 2 2ND. - KILMORE, AND ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, and red and green flares could be seen apparently at sea level, but nothing was found. - Rewards :...
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1853 (1)
IN continuation of the Wreck Chart for 1852, issued with our January number of last year, we now present our readers with that for the following year, 1853. In glancing over the borders of the Chart, and observing the black dots which fringe...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Dispatches
Dispatches RNLI Photographer of the Year 2006 The first ever RNLI Photographer of the Year competition, open to everyone at the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units, recorded the drama of working in a lifesaving environment using...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
Category: Services
Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning " Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved • over 1,750 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need m every...
Category: Advertisement
Across the Years
50 years ago the RNLI linked the Battle of Britain with the Isle of Man Fifty years ago this autumn, at a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday 3 September 1940, the emotionless voice of an airfield controller scrambled a small group of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Robert Watson Boyd
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — As the s.s. Robert Watson Boyd, of North Shields, coal laden for Constantinople, was going to sea at about 7 A.M. on the 22nd March, her steering gear broke down, she became unmanageable, and drifted on to the...
Dear reader
My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.
I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...
Category: Articles