30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services
The ninth international life-boat con- ference was held in Edinburgh from 4th to 6th June, 1963. Apart from the British delegation there were repre- sentatives of sixteen nations present. Of the European countries there were delegations from...
Category: Meetings
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.27 p.m. on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Volunteer, of Shoreham, was making distress...
Books The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats The Story Of The Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats written and published by Jeff Morris, prices in text Jeff Morris, Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, continues his prolific...
Category: Articles
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...
Category: Branches
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...