ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WIGHT. — It having been considered that a Life-boat placed at Atherfield, on the south-west shore of the Isle of Wight, would be the means of affording material assistance to vessels which are not unfrequently driven on...
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Lt Cdr Brian Miles, the Director of the RNLI, was awarded a CBE in the New Year's honours list in recognition of his service to the Institution.
Cdr Miles joined the RNLI in 1964 as Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats in...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a motor launch was firing red flares three miles east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
Captain Richard James Trebilcock, of Newquay, Cornwall, Commodore of the Newquay Rowing Club, who died early in August at the age of sixty- eight, had served for seven years as an officer of the life-boat. He was appointed second coxswain in...
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SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—On the 14th April, at daylight, the schooner Wells, of Goole, was observed at anchor off this station, with a signal of distress flying.
The schooner was in a dangerous position on a lee shore, a heavy...
Margate, Kent. At 2.48 early on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the Kentish Knock sands about eighteen miles north-east of Margate. A south- south-easterly...
Dover, Kent. At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 11th of July, 1960, a report was received that a canoe had capsized in Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 3.15 in a fresh south- westerly gale and a moderate sea. It was two...
The rescue of the stewardess and cook from the Finnish steamer Esko, 19th October, 1935. - View image in PDF
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