OCTOBER 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.35 in the morning, the Deal coastguard reported a steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
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Pictured are Eric Winter (kilted) pouring a glass of malt for Ray Taylor.. - View image in PDF
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Lifeguards from Seaburn rescued a 5-year-old dog that swam out of his depth during a lunchtime walk with his owner. Cruz the chocolate Labrador was spotted struggling...
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It's late, it's dark and it's raining, but the Oakley is ashore and The Princess Royal is on her carriage for the first time. So all we have to do now is launch her again and then retrieve her before we go home to bed…. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
Effective co-operation A FRESH WEST by southerly breeze gusting to near gale, force 7, was blowing along the south coast off Eastbourne on the afternoon of Monday September 1, 1986, when the town's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was...
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.52 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the converted ship's boat Judorka of Swansea had not returned to her berth in the...