Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 12.8 p.m. on 3rd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Pensa had engine trouble 18 miles south of the Needles. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her...
Members of Golden Lane Youth Club, from London EC1, visited Hastings last August proudly to present a cheque to Coxswain Joe Martin for £247.50, the sum they had raised with a sponsored swim. The 10 to 16 year olds got together with the... - View image in PDF
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Walmer, Kent. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile south of South Brake buoy. The life- boat Charles Dibdin...
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.38 P.M. on the 7th January, 1939, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties.
Soon afterwards they reported...
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
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The total receipts last year were £386,836. That is the highest they have ever been. The British public in spite of the increasing burden • of taxation, in spite of all the public and private claims on its purse, has never before given...
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At 12.30 P.M. on the 7th October the Coastguard received a telephone mes- sage from the Smalls Lighthouse stating that a schooner had struck a reef close by and was likely to become a total wreck; also that the crew had taken to the...
100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.
A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...
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Above - Medallists from left to right Ian Leask Lerwick - Bronze Mecal, Michael Grant. Lerwick- Bronze Medal. Peter Thomson, Le Bronze Medal. Brian Laurenson Lerwick.
Bronze Medal. Richie Simpson. : tvvwcfc. Bronze Medal;... - View image in PDF
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Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.25 P.M. on the 29th July the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with two men on board, was in distress half a mile west of Fairlight look-out. A b'ght S.E.
breeze was blowing, with a...