Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
CONTENTS Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Annual Meeting of the R.N.L.I 308 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 Sea Cities of the Future by Arthur Gaunt . . ...
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Ken Speakman, former honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station for over 20 years..
Category: Obituaries
The memorial at St Anne's to the victims of the two capsizing accidents on 9th December, 1886, when 27 lifeboatmen perished in the estuary.. - View image in PDF
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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 10.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was drifting ashore about two miles from Glas Island lighthouse and needed immediate help. A...
Dover, Kent. At 10.30 p.m. on i6th January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men had set out for the Mole in a small dinghy leaving a third man on the beach who was to be picked up after one of the men had been...
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AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.
in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the morning of the 28th of June, 1952, a radio telegram was received from the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardrossan, that she was making for Campbeltown to land a very badly injured seaman.
She...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that some people were drifting out to sea on a rubber tyre off Walcott. At 3.55 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was...