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LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
Reverend David Mumford of Surrey was delighted to scoop the £5,000 first prize in the Spring 2010 Lifeboat Lottery. The model boat enthusiast, who has constructed an entire fleet of 136 miniature craft, said:
Category: Articles
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On the evening of the 27th November it was reported that a member of the Board of Trade life-saving rocket apparatus crew had fallen over a cliff and been seriously injured, and that it was necessary to get him to the mainland for...
A Sailing Boat
At 10.20 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing boat was seen being carried to seaward by the wind and tide. At 10.40 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour and a half after...
A Yacht (7)
Kinghorn, Fife. At approximately 8 p.m. on igth August, 1965, a yacht was seen to capsize half a mile south-west of the station. At 8.2 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze and corresponding sea. She came up with the yacht and took...
Two Boats
Wading neck high TWO SMALL BOATS trying to enter Cullercoats Bay were seen at 1645 on Saturday April 14, 1979, by ILB Crew Member Christopher Blackman, aged 19, and his 16-year-old friend Jeffrey Storey.
It was a fine day...
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
Tarka
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
—At 12.34 on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1951, the Holyhead coastguard said that a capsized yacht had been sighted about seven miles west-north- west off Porthdinllaen Point. At one...
Your shout
Dear Editor
I wonder if you can pass on my good wishes to those three lifeguards who saved the lives of the 40 children and teachers on the beach with the disappearing sandbank. The Summer holidays would have been...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Waterlogged dinghy BOUND FOR THE WHELKINO GROUNDS, MFV Isabelle Kathleen cleared her moorings abreast the lifeboat house at Wells at about 1120 on Thursday, June 3,1976, and set out to sea. The 36' fishing boat was commanded by her owner...
Westover
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 22nd of August, 1948, the shore attendant at East Pier reported flares from a vessel near No. 3 Brake Buoy, and the coastguard reported a vessel aground north of South Goodwin Lightvessel, which...