Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat at anchor, three and a half miles to the eastward, was sig- nalling for help. The motor life-boat Cyril...
On the after- noon of the 13th May the sea got up, and the local motor fishing cobles William and Arthur, and B.S. Colling, which were out crab and lobster fishing, were in danger of being swamped.
The life-boat coxswain...
AUGUST 9TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Owing to its engine failing, a R.A.F. Spitfire aeroplane crashed into the sea, but a naval vessel picked up the body of the pilot. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d.
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At i .20 p.m.
on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was seen being driven ashore on Pilling sands. At 1.30 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a southerly gale and a rough sea. It was one...
The Holyhead, Anglesey, life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) took part in a double rescue on 6th April, 1969, when she brought into Holyhead a yacht and a sailing dinghy.. - View image in PDF
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The old Ramsgate Pulling and Sailing Life-boat going out on her last service, 14th October, 1925.. - View image in PDF
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The pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Thereasa Boileau (Dungeness, 1912-39) (See page 411). - View image in PDF
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With the ruins of Flint Castle overlooking the proceedings, Eric Bulling handed D class lifeboat Marjorie Helen over to Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fundraising and marketing on 16 November.
This was Eric's second... - View image in PDF
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On pages 396 and 398 of the January, 1973, edition of THE LIFE-BOAT reference was made to a covered chalice which was being produced by Stuart Crystal. Though made by Stuart's, it is being marketed by Mulberry Hall, Stonegate, York, YO1...
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