SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.45 A.M. an aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea, and at 11.52 A.M. the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. Four...
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...
Head launcher? Robin Sharp, area organiser, east, presents a plaque to Nigel Smart, the headmaster of Henley County Primary School, Ipswich, who is suitably attired after his 90 pupils aged between 4'/2 and II raised £388.10 in a... - View image in PDF
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With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...
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Boulmer, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 29th January a fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough and increasing sea. Visibility was bad, and it was raining heavily. All local cobles, with the exception of the Our Brother, came...
Danish fishing vessel aground KIRKWALL COASTGUARD fired maroons to alert the lifeboat at 2045 on Friday, March 5, having seen a fishing vessel, Marianne Bodker of Denmark, ashore on Coubister Skerries.
The 70' Clyde...
Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...
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Runaway Coast sells luxury fabrics and household goods inspired by the Suffolk shoreline.
As a company with strong links to the sea, and the county’s four RNLI lifeboat stations, it has chosen to donate 5% of all sales to...
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Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
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NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.
The money to build the Longhope life-boat...
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