AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Torbay, South Devon.—About 10.15 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the honorary secretary and the motor mechanic were keeping yachts in the harbour under observation as the weather had deteriorated. One yacht, Boy Jack, seemed to...
First rescue by FAB 3 prototype while on trials The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 (see page 90 of this issue) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth, where she was based for some days for...
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Funnymen Little and Large presented a cheque for £1,100 to Blackpool lifeboat crew 24 August 1996. The money was raised from an angling competition organised by Blackpool Boat Anglers at their festival on the 17 and 18 of... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
A SHRIEKING sky and a wind-torn sea— Steadily lads I And sheltered under the Life-boat's lee— Steadily lads! Storm-marked faces and shaggy hair, Jackets of rusty blue, Men who will do and will not despair— Men of the Life-boat...
Category: Poetry
A replica of Greathead's 'Original' lifeboat made of flowers was used by Lowestoft ladies' guild at the RNLI anniversary ball and Church service in March. The guild raises over £3,000 annually for branch... - View image in PDF
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TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril...