AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Robert Wrey MBE - Seahouses lifeboat station Chairman and former Lifeboat Operations Manager.
Category: Obituaries
Far flung fame: Alistair Mdntosh of The United Kingdom Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific sent in this photograph to show the extent of the RNLI influence. The small boy in the middle of the picture is wearing an RNLI tee-shirt.... - View image in PDF
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Dungeness, Kent. At 8.10 a.m. on 3rd November, 1965, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, half a mile south of Dungeness, was flying a distress signal. The lifeboat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 8.28 a.m. in...
Open fishing boats FLAMBOROUGH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station at 0918 on Thursday January 31, 1980, that the coble Renown was in difficulties one mile east of Rolston and some 13 miles south of the...
Baby Emu tries to snatch back the cheque for £580 he and Rod Hull have just handed over to Ray Kipling, deputy public relations officer, RNLI, at Bentalls, Kingston-upon- Thames. The money was raised by Emu's country-wide promotion... - View image in PDF
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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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Humber, Yorkshire On the 27th and 30th December, 1965, the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem A full account of this service appears on page 63.
At 5.30 P.M. on the 27th December, when a rough sea was running off Southend, it was reported that a small boat was adrift and making signals of distress by means of a lantern. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were at once...
HOPPER AND TUG COLLIDED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 a.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a collision had taken place near the South Oaze buoy and that there were people in the water. The lifeboat Greater London II...