DEC. 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBER.
LAND. During the morning a strong N.E.
breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and anxiety was felt for the safety of three fishing cobles. There was a heavy swell at the...
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
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Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Barbara Benton, Alderney lifeboat station honorary press officer from 1984 until her death..
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James Hall - former Eastbourne lifeboat station Second Assistant Mechanic, Bowman and Crew Member.
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Stan Turns - former Salcombe lifeboat station Second Coxswain and Deputy Launching Authority.
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WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...
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Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sunderland aircraft of the Royal Air Force had crashed when landing half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse.
Ten...
Filey ILB launched at 1515 after the crew of a small boat had been reported waving an oar. It was one of the sailing club's own rescue boats and the club's other rescue boat came to her assistance, arriving just after the ILB. The...
CABIN CRUISER TOWED INTO HARBOUR Walmer, Kent. At 5.38 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been seen two miles off shore east of the look-out. The life-boat Charles...