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Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the north east of Lyme...
Telegraph
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 18th March, and found the barquentine Telegraph, of Frederikshald, bound from Ghristiania...
Awards
The following awards appeared in the New Year Honours List: M.B.E.
Mr. H. Morrison, who is the local postmaster, became honorary secretary of the Barra Island life-boat station in 1946.
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Category: Awards
The S.S. Achilles
At 8 P.M., on the 9th October, in a S.W. wind and moderate sea, the Lifeboat BeaucJiamp was launched at the request of Lloyd's Agent, and proceeded to the s.s. Achilles, of South Shields, which had stranded on Scroby...
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ACHILL ISLAND | 5 JANUARY
Volunteers from Achill Island launched their all-weather lifeboat when two hill walkers got stuck 60m up a steep cliff face near Mweelrea Mountain, Co Mayo. Low visibility prevented the Coast Guard...
Category: Services
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As the year turns, we look forward to new opportunities and new challenges, not least, here in the pages of the Lifeboat.
Founded more than 185 years ago, the RNLI was more than just a dream for Sir William Hillary (see...
Category: Articles
The Owers Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL At 4.55 p.m. on 7th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Owers lightvessel and a request was made for the use of the life-boat to take out a doctor. At 5.15...
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RSPCA Bronze medal for lifeboatmen Nine crew members of West Kirby's D class inflatable lifeboat, the deputy launching authority and the station honorary secretary have been awarded the RSPCA's Bronze medal for rescuing two horses...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.23 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1956, the Rye police reported that there was a young girl in the sea off Camber. At 5.35 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a...
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St. Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of August, 1948, a message was received from the har- bour office that a sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties six miles off Gorey, and at 5.15 the motor life-boat Howard D. put...