The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Michael Harrington, of Bal- timore. He first joined the Baltimore crew in 1943 and was second coxswain from 1945 to 1950. He was appointed coxswain on the 1st of April, 1950.
Since...
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MONTBOSK.—On the 26th September the wind, which had been blowing from the S.S.E., towards the afternoon increased to a gale, with a heavy sea and much rain.
At about 6.45 a steamer was seen attempting to run for the harbour...
During the night of 18/19 March 1988 a 25ft Jaguar class yacht, on passage from Ramsgate to Gillingham ran aground in strong winds, fog and driving rain at Jury's Gap, Camber.
Rye's C class inflatable The Lewes... - View image in PDF
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.23 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing boat Cameo with a man and a boy on board was overdue from Langstone harbour. She had left the...
BROUGHTY FERRY.—At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, the pilot-cutter No. 2 of Dundee, dragged its anchor and stranded on Abertay Sands.
Heeling over until it lay broadside to the gale, the vessel...
'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...
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Poole, Dorset.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1957, a message was received that the cabin cruiser Rani IV, with a woman and three boys on board, was overdue from a trip in the harbour. After further enquiries...
Shortly after noon on the 18th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress on the Holm Sands. The weather was fine at the time, with a light S.W. breeze blowing and a smooth sea, but, as it was feared that she would not be...