When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the...
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Some of the lifeboats have taken part in historic events. Plymouth's lifeboat Clemency was present on August 19, 1879, at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...
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During the afternoon of Thursday 24 July 2008, Teignmouth’s Atlantic 85 lifeboat The Two Annes launched in dreadful conditions to search for two swimmers, a 15-year-old boy and his father, missing from the beach. A full complement of four...
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Early in the morning of the 12th March, the schooner Clifton, of Glou- cester, ran ashore on the south side of the bar at the entrance to Bideford harbour, the wind blowing hard from the west at the time. At daylight the crew, 6 in number,...
Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.25 on on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that the small fish- ing vessel Violet was unable to make the harbour entrance. The wind at the time had...
Ox the evening of the 9th of August, 1957, two boys and a girl were bathing off the beach at Walberswick, some two hundred yards south of the south pier of the harbour at Southwold, Suffolk. A strong south-by-east breeze was blowing and...
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On service 11 hours ON MONDAY, MAY 31, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station that a cabin cruiser had broken down in a position some three to four miles south east of the lifeboat station; she was drifting...