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JULY 30TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man had been swept away by the tide while swimming off Dumpton Gap, but the life-boat could not find him, and he was washed ashore, still alive, near Broadstairs. - Rewards, £6 7s.
The Patrol Vessel Cramond Island
APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
Rask (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Radio and Electronic Equipment In Life-Boats
With the exception of three short- range boats, all the Institution's life- boats, both in the active and in the reserve fleet, are equipped with M/F (medium frequency) radio-telephony.
The advantages of a life-boat...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
Annual Meeting
The eighty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION was held in the Whitehall Rooms on Thursday, March 14th, 1912. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., presided, and amongst those present were: — The...
Category: Meetings
Three Rowing Boats and a Motor Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
Scharhorn
Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Niton radio station that two members of the crew of the motor vessel Scharhorn of...
Catharina W.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1959, the Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary of a distress message received from a Dutch coaster stating that she had broken down north of Arran...