On the 6th December the brig Champion, of Shoreham, was observed in the direc- tion of the Gorton Sand during a N.E.
gale, with a heavy sea. The Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat put off to her assistance, and found that she was...
The Lowestoft life-boat rolling in heavy seas at the entrance to Lowestoft harbour as she returns to port after escorting a longshore boat to safety on 7th October, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 7.10 at night a message was received from the signal station that anxiety was felt for the life-boat coxswain, who, with the bowman and five others, had left for Jethou at 12.20 that afternoon in...
An exhibition of early English bibles, belonging to Mr. E. Newgass, honorary secretary of the Steyning branch, was held in Worthing for the Institution by Mr. J. R. Aldridge, for many years the honotaty secretary at...
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The SS "Plawsworth" on the Rocks. - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3.15 p.m. on yth July, 1965, a member of the IRB crew was told that a motor skiff carrying two people was in difficulties half a mile north of St. Ives Pier Head. At 3.15 the IRB launched in a northerly breeze and came...
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22nd August.
Went to the Bull Lightvessel, where one of the crew had died in the lan- tern.—Permanent Crew, Rewards, 6s..
Islay, Inner Hebrides. — During the early afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the Kilchoman coastguard re- ported a vessel in difficulties three miles west-north-west of Smaull Point, and at 1.15 the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth,...
On 2nd September, 1968, the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put out to the yacht Frances Helen. A full account of this service appears on page 552..