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...
ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...
BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...
DURING the coming holiday months many people will find themselves con- fronted at seaside resorts and elsewhere with flag sellers for the Royal National Life-boat Institution. When putting a coin into a box they may well ask them- selves:...
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At 7.48 p.m. on nth April, 1967, it was reported that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at Aberbach, Dinas Cross. The lifeboat Howard Marryat was launched at 8 o'clock in a strong north north easterly wind on the ebb tide. On reaching the...
A small fishing-boat named the Flossie was seen to be in difficulties in Port Isaac Bay on the 30th May, a southerly gale having suddenly sprung up. The I occupant of the boat at once made for the shore, but the boat shipped so much water...
Launches 45 Lives rescued 66 OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2....
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Lifeboats from many member countries of the International Lifeboat Federation alongside during the 1991 conference in Oslo. The RNLI's Mersey class is clearly visible, as are several Colin Archer-type sailing lifeboats long since retired... - View image in PDF
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28th Decem- ber. A steamer had foundered, but her crew got ashore in the ship's boat.— Rewards, £7 2s..