Hundreds of Lives Saved... probably When Poole's Atlantic launched at 2050 on Easter Saturday this year the crew thought they were searching for red flares.
Instead, when they arrived at the scene in a dark and...
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
Handing over of City of Edinburgh SUPPORT FOR THE Edinburgh lifeboat appeal has been forthcoming from every sector of the communities of both Edinburgh and Fraserburgh: commerce, industry, the professions, charitable trusts, worthy bodies,...
Category: Inaugurations
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1 st March, 1971 to 31 st May, 1971: Launches 494, lives saved 227 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/5/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 93,507 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
Barrow, Lancashire - At 3 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, it was learnt that the converted life-boat Gamecock was overdue.
The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 3.25 in a fresh south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — During a strong E.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the llth December, 1937, anxiety was felt for the safety of the Burnmouth fishing yawls returning to harbour. The new motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Three rescued in hurricane SILVER MEDAL IN THE EARLY HOURS of Friday, October 16, 1987, hurricane force south-southwesterly winds of force 16-17, gusting at times to more than 100 knots, left a trail of destruction along the south and...
Three nations THE SOVIET TRAWLER Topaz making for a position off Bournemouth with a French yacht, Campscharles, in tow was reported to HM Coastguard Solent RHQ by Lands End RHQ at 0910 on Thursday,October 14,1976. Two survivors aboard the...
FIGURES for the first nine months of the year show remarkable increases in the numbers of services carried out by life-saving vessels. All three categories of life-saving vessel with which the Institution is concerned, its lifeboats, its own...
Category: Articles
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services