Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...
Left to right : Ex-Coxswain Joseph O. Tomlinson, Coxswain Robert Harland, ex-Coxswain Richard Eglon, Coxswain Thomas William Welham, ex-Coxswain Thomas McGarry Kelly. Their total service is 217 years; their total ages 356 years.. - View image in PDF
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NOV. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.33 A.M. a barge was flying distress signals near the Jenkin Buoy. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 11.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil...
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
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AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
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FOR a rescue from a cabin cruiser, which led to the saving of five lives, including that of an elderly lady who was trapped in a cabin, Mr. Robert Jefford, helmsman, and Mr. Lionel Fisher, crewman, both of Lyme Regis, have been accorded the...
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Five members of Rayners Lane branch raised more than £300 in a six-mile sponsored canoe paddle on the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire on Saturday June 19—and it rained! The team took it in turn to paddle the canoe, generously donated... - View image in PDF
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Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.15 A.M.
on the 28th March, 1939, a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning. A moderate...
* The five Gallantry Medal awardees pose proudly for t. - View image in PDF
cameras. l-R: Shaun Sonley, Tony Salter, Aileen Jones. - View image in PDF
Ian Sanderson and Gary Barlow. - View image in PDF
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