BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 28TH, 30TH and 31ST.- NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th, the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched to the help of the motor vessel Sandhill, of Newcastle- on-Tyne,...
SEVEN MEN RESCUED FROM DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Anstruther, Fife. At 9.30 on the morning of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Netherlands motor vessel Muskctier of Groningen, was aground on Balcomie...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the police reported that a girl was missing on the island of Eigg. At 1.45 the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was...
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Roberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
NORTH DEAL—The coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Somerville was called, at about 1.30 A.M. on the 12th December, by the Coastguard, who informed him that guns and rockets were being fired by the Gull light-vessel. He at once summoned the crew,...
Lt Cdr Brian Miles reviews the past year ...and the ones to come There have been a number of recent events which have made me more aware than usual of the Institution's continuing responsibility to provide a lifeboat service to the...
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llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
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Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay and the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
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