Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...
Caister, Norfolk.—About noon on the 29th of July, 1957, a small boat was seen from the boathouse to be flying a distress flag. She was towing a larger vessel and appeared to be mak- ing little progress north of the north- west Scroby buoy....
Coxswain Edwin Madron, of Penlee, and John Drew, the motor mechanic. - View image in PDF
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Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
The following life-boat stations celebrated their centenaries this year: Wey- mouth, Dorset; St. David's, Pembrokeshire; Salcombe, South Devon; and Wells, Norfolk.
At Selsey, Sussex, on 10th June the 48-foot 6-inch...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
. . . and the sponsorship: Stephen Treadaway presents to Lionel Sharp, Faringdon branch secretary, the £220 which he raised by running in the Swindon Marathon. With them is Stephen's father, George, who in six years has raised over... - View image in PDF
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Dinghy and motorboat SHOREHAM HARBOUR ILB launched at 1519 on Tuesday, May 27, two minutes after the honorary secretary had been informed by the Coastguard that a dinghy had capsized one mile off Lancing. The sea was smooth with strong north...
Buttons and cards: sorting through a few of the hundreds of thousands of buttons and postcards that were sent in by viewers of BBC TVs Blue Peter are one of the programme's presenters, Janet Ellis, and Duncan Chilcott of Phillips Fine... - View image in PDF
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