MAY 31ST. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. A vessel had been reported aground, but another vessel towed her to safety. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d..
AUGUST 16TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A dinghy had been reported missing, but she had made for Brixham. - Rewards, £9 4s..
NOVEMBER 13TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. Rockets had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £14 6s. 6d..
Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
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The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.
At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...
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The Lady Leigh Life- boat of this station saved 6 men from a Ashing coble in great danger off this Port on the 8th Feb..
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—27th November, 1937. A small yacht was missing, but could not be found. She had stranded, but'had refloated and reached port next morning.—Rewards, £11 14*..
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Five men from an aeroplane were adrift in a rubber dinghy, but they were picked up by a steamer. - Rewards, £35 13s..
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
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