MAY 11TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.16 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard at Cliff End that a motor launch off Barton-on-Sea had broken down, and that its occupants were waving clothing to attract attention. As the sea...
'Operation Lifeboat': all over the country Scouts have been at work—180 Greenock District Scouts raised £250 by a sponsored woodcut.. - View image in PDF
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Spectators getting a thrill at Port Isaac, Cornwall, when as part of a water safety demonstration the local IRB showed what it could do in a rocky situation.. - View image in PDF
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Dr Harrison Broadbent On Top of the Cliff After His Irb Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay Isle of Wight On 10th April 1966 (See P 136). - View image in PDF
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Rescued Sailors Being Landed From The New Brighton Life-Boat In June 1966 After Two Dinghies Had Overturned In Rock Channel Off Wallasey See Page 226. - View image in PDF
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Little and Broad Haven, May 9: Handing over and dedication of new ILB donated by the City of Coventry. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Jill Cater and Mrs Sylvia Hillier with Brighton's new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Graham Hillier and Tony Cater at the naming ceremony on 29 September. (Photo courtesy Evening Argus, Brighton). - View image in PDF
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Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, a message was received from Toe Head, Castletownshend, that the trawler Anne Gaston, of France, which had a crew of nine, had been wrecked at Toe Head. At 11.30 the...
Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sir William...
At 7 A.M. on the 17th February a telephone message was received from Port Wrinkle stating that a large steamer was at anchor six and a half miles off the shore and flying signals of distress. A strong S.S.W. gale was blowing and the Life-...