Dunbar, East Lothian - At 11.54 a.m. on 3Oth July, 1967, it was learnt that two children in a yellow rubber dinghy were being swept out to sea from Whitesands.
The life-boat Margaret slipped her moorings at 12 o'clock...
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
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Gold Medal for Coxswain Hewitt Clark of Lerwick for the service in which a 15-man crew were rescued from a 3.000 ton cargo vessel in 50ft breaking seas and horrendous conditions.. - View image in PDF
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Whitehills, Banffshire. At 2.24 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Troup Head and could be in the sea. The...
As reported on page 108, 46-foot 9-inch and 47-foot Watson class life-boats are being fitted with two selfinflatable bags which will bring them back to the upright position if they should capsize once. The pictures, beginning left with a... - View image in PDF
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JULY 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSIIIRE.
During the morning the fishing fleet had returned, as the weather was getting rough, with the exception of one coble, Freda, and at 12.50 in the afternoon, by which time the wind was blowing...
(below) An Atlantic 21 lifeboat airborne in trials at the Shingle Bank off the Isle of Wight. The Atlantic 21 has enough speed, up to 30 knots, to run clear of unstable seas in shallow water or steer round breaking crests when going to... - View image in PDF
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(Below) Port Isaac's new D Class ILB was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Vicar of Port Isaac, The Reverend F. J. W. Maddock. She was the gift of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Round Tables and was presented by their area chairman. John... - View image in PDF
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West Division Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two...
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AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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