Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
FEBRUARY 22ND. - GREAT YARMOUTH A N D G O R L E S T O N , N O R F O L K . A t 4 A.M. Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that the Caister life-boat had been called out by rockets north of Winterton, but that the Caister life-boat could not...
The life-boat at St. Andrew's, 1S.B., saved the crew of 4 men of the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, which had stranded off the entrance to the harbour.
THE Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, was closed at the end of October. The Institution had its own pavilion1 where it exhibited the motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type which had been built on the...
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Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
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Jan. 1.—Voted 81. to 8 men for putting off in the yawl Bravo, of Yarmouth, during a strong gale from the W. on the 29th Nov., and saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Erae, of Sunderland. The vessel had stranded on the Scroby Sand, and her...
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On the night of the 26th of November, the brig Fortuna, of Memel, stranded on the East Scar Rock, off Redcar. The Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, through a high sea, and took off her crew of 11 men, landing them in safety.