Newhaven, May 27, 1986 When Mrs Esme Anderson presented the 52ft Arun class lifeboat Keith Anderson to Newhaven on the afternoon of Tuesday May 27, she wanted everyone at the ceremony to know a little about her late husband, whose name she...
Category: Inaugurations
Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...
IN December, 1928, the Institution received the following letter from Mill- brook, Ontario, Canada :— " In the Toronto, Can., Globe of Dec. 8th, I saw an interesting article about the work of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. I...
Category: Donations
Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.<...
Category: Articles
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 6.26 in the morning, on the 21st of November, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was firing rockets about two miles to the north. At 6.42 the No. 1 life- boat Henry Blogg was launched. The sea was rough with a...
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat appeared, the inauguration ceremonies of three new Motor Life-boats have taken place, of the Dunleary, at Kingstown— her splendid voyage from Cowes to Ireland was described by Commander Stopford C....
Category: Inaugurations
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the llth of September, 1952, the weather was becoming steadily worse, with a strong freshening northerly wind and strong ebb-tide making the harbour entrance dangerous for small boats. It was decided to...
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The next generation of E class lifeboat can now be seen on the Thames. Hurley Burly is the first of three new E class lifeboats to be shared by Tower and Chiswick Lifeboat Stations. Two more are due to join our fleet in...
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Margate, Kent.—The S.S. Generton, of Newcastle, a vessel of nearly 5,000 tons bound from South Africa to London was ashore -on the Girdler Sands, twelve miles to the north-west of Margate. Tugs had tried several times to refloat her, but by...