Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Mike Bartley (left) and his wife Shirley-Ann being presented with their cheque for £2,000 - the top prize in the RNLI's summer draw - by Gemma Craven (right).
The Institution's Head of Fund Raising Anthony... - View image in PDF
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Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
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POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
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Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather on the 2nd January, 1939. A N.E. breeze wasblowing, with a rough sea. The Eagle came in and reported that the boats still at sea were in danger...
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
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Calshot base from Coastguard tower: City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade alongside.. - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE.—The Bradford Life-boat, and the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out at 10 P.M. on the 26th January in response to signals of distress, during a strong S.W. gale, passed through the Cudd Channel and spoke the sloop Venus, of Guernsey...
HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.40 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1947, the fishing boat Victoria was seen approaching harbour with the seine-net motor fishing boat Atomic Star in...
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...