AUGUST 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.52 in the morning the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel lying on the Goodwin Sands.
He telephoned the coastguard station for confirmation and at 9.40 the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary...
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., P.O., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by ADMIRAL CHATFIELD, C.B.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed, and...
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Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Hutnber, Yorkshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 29th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the Dowsing lightvessel had requested assistance in landing a sick man. The lifeboat City of Bradford III was launched at 6.50...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 1.38 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1951, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned a message received through the North Foreland radio station from the S.S. Lord Citrine. She was...
Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
THE RIGHT Hos. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.C., M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P.
Seconded by The Right Hon.
the Earl of MOUNT...
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Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
Category: Donations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
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An open day which raised £1,600 at Short ham's Lady Bee Marina attracted crowds of people who enjoyed boat trips, a lifeboat demonstration, a fashion show, a fencing display and not least Liz Naldrett's tantalising shellfish.<... - View image in PDF
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