Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
The trimaran Triharda in Yarmouth harbour after her recovery and righting with the Arun class Joy and John Wade in the background.
The damage to the tri was not so extensive as the photograph might imply as the outer hulls... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...
Category: Services
During a strong breeze from the S.S.E., a thick fog, and a heavy sea, on the 15th March, signal guns were heard in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand Lightship.
The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at...
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
International marine photographer, Rick Tomlinson, together with Wellies Restaurant came up with a great idea for raising money for the charity.. - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex.—10th August. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea and the life-boat, in charge of Captain J. N.
Tait, D.S.C., R.N., honorary secretary, put out with a scratch crew, the Tegular crew being at sea. A motor boat...
Margate, Kent.—At about 5 P.M. on the 25th October the coastguard reported that a small fishing boat had broken down and was drifting ashore east of Margate jetty. A very heavy N.W. squall was blowing, with a roughsea. The motor life-boat...
At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased. About 9.30 A.M. the...