JANUARY 14TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 6.55 A.M. a message was received from the Hope Cove coastguard that a vessel half a mile S.S.W. of Hamstone Rock required help. A light easterly breeze was blowingand the sea was smooth....
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2...
Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...
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FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
Congratulations to Mr M King from Hampshire, who won the £5,000 first prize in our Spring
Lifeboat Lottery.
The other winners were:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mr K Hope, Kent
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NORTH DEAL. — Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel while a whole gale from the S.W. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 11th February, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 10.15 P...
ABERYSTWITH.—On the 23rd January, while a whole gale from the S.W. was at its height, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the steamer Ananda, of Greenock, bound from Workington for Swansea with a cargo of pig-iron, was seen in a disabled state...