ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands in a longshore boat and a small motor boat in the...
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 5 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that two cobles were in difficulties and in danger of being blown out to sea. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 5.35 in a gale...
Little and Broad Haven September 12 1987:. - View image in PDF
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William luckin and crew slip her moorings with the Atlantic 75 Daiy A/atef and crew standing by. - View image in PDF
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In the four years and nine months of war our life-boats have rescued 5661 lives, and have won 204 medals for gallantry..
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THE extensive and increasing commerce of the United Kingdom renders unfortunately shipwrecks on its shores a matter of daily occurrence. Indeed, their frequency is so great, that in the aggregate the public at large fail to realise the...
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MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...