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• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.
The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...
Category: Articles
With Seas Breaking Heavily Across Johnno Crew Member Mike Judge Can Be Seen Aboard the Casualty As Whitstable's Atlantic
With seas breaking heavily across Johnno crew member Mike Judge can be seen aboard the casualty as Whitstable's Atlantic sheers away with one of the survivors aboard. - View image in PDF
Photo Kent Messenger. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flying Cloud, of Bideford
On the 28th De- cember, during a gale from S.S.W., the brig Flying Cloud, of Bideford, was run into by another vessel, and afterwards became a total wreck on Batten Reef. The Prince Consort life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in...
Run for His Money
Run for his money Clive Morris, Port Talbot crew member pictured wearing an RNLI tee-shirt, ran from the RNLI regional office in Cardiff to the lifeboat station at Port Talbot raising £1,250. He was waved off by office staff Vicky,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Admiralty Patrol Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - NEWHAVEN SUSSEX. At 6.52 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that an Admiralty patrol boat needed help about two miles south of the breakwater. The sea was rough, with a fresh S.S.W. wind...
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 97 APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officerof the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low,...
Category: Services
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JANUARY 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
The life-boat was launched and stood by at sea while U.S.A. aeroplanes were returning from the continent, but her services were not needed. - Rewards, £19 16s. 6d..
November
Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...
Category: Services
Penthesilea
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Charming Nancy
A few minutes after 8 P.M. on the 29th August the Coastguard on duty reported signals of distress on the West Hoyle Bank, and the Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was promptly launched. She proceeded to the Bank where she found the sloop...