The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...
The schooner Berthe Marie, which a few days previously had been in difficulties off Port Isaac, was again in trouble on the llth December when near the Swansea Fairway Buoy. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing and the master, fearing that he...
The Hoylake Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 25th September on the occasion of the flat Catharine, of Liver-pool, going ashore about a mile from the Life-boat Station daring a whole gale from the north and a very heavy...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1954,the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Dennis was still at sea and the weather was deteriorating. It was thought that she might be in danger making for...
At 3 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Tynewood. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched with a doctor on board at 4.20 in a light south...
TWO MEN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY CAPSIZES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1962, the Needles coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing yacht Barbecue, which had a crew of two, had capsized...
Flagstaff memorial: The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Peter Mumford, blesses the flagstaff mounted in Truro Cathedral and made as a memorial to the lifeboatmen who died in the Penlee lifeboat disaster of December 1981. The wood for the... - View image in PDF
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CULLERCOATS.—On the 10th January the Palmerston Life-boat put off to the aid of a fishing-coble which had been caught in a very high sea, rendering it dangerous for her to cross the bar. With the assistance of the Life-boat the coble safely...
Four of the St. Ives crew on the Serpentine. - View image in PDF
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This is the new sign of The Life-boat Inn at Brancaster, Norfolk, and has been painted from the picture, by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the Cromer service to the barge Sepoy in December, 1933. It is reproduced by courtesyLof the... - View image in PDF
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