The lifeboat station (inset) is on the quay at the bottom right hand corner of the caravan site.. - View image in PDF
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BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued...
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DECEMBER 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 4.55 A.M. the Fairlight coastguard reported that two soldiers were either stranded on the Regiment on the wreck. They had gone out in wreck of the S.S. Barnhill, off Langley Point, a...
Mary Gabriel, second lifeboat presented to the RNLI by Major Gabriel, outside Guildhall, London. On board are Major Gabriel and Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London, with Commander D. B. Cairns (second from left), Chief of... - View image in PDF
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Plymouth, Devon.—On the after- noon of the 24th of June, 1950, an explosion, believed to have been caused by an oil stove, set fire to the yacht Edford, of Dartmouth, oft Blackstone Point. A man and .his wife were on board. The woman...
At daylight on the llth April the schooner Elizabeth, of Llanelly, was discovered in a dangerous position, on a lee shore, 5 miles from this station. It was blowing a gale from the N.E. at the time, accompanied by heavy. squalls of snow: and...
BIyth, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that three or four fishing boats were at sea between Blyth and St. Mary's Island, and that owing to very heavy seas across the bar it would be dangerous for...
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Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the Kirkwall lifeboat, with the station's new Arun Mickie Salvesen. - View image in PDF
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SICK MAN At 12.20 p.m. on nth February, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man on the Coningbeg Lightvessel needed to be taken ashore. No other suitable boat being available the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont proceeded to...
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
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