Night launch for Tynesider, Tynemouth's 46' 9" Watson lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Newcastle Journal. - View image in PDF
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Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (r.), station honorary secretary, and Herbert Rand (I.), branch vice-chairman, with Clare Francis who opened the station's new ILB boathouse on June 2, unveiling a plaque commemorating a gift from Saab... - View image in PDF
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NEW BBIGHTON.—The steam-tug Hover came to the New Brighton stage at about 6 P.M. on the 5th October for the Lifeboat, as there was a ship in distress on the Little Burbo Bank. The Stuart Hay Life-boat was at once manned, taken in tow by the...
The Michael Stephens (ex-Exmouth) has been placed in the reserve fleet along with the Crawford and Constance Conybeare (ex-Falmouth). The Gertrude (ex-Holy Island) has gone to Exmouth, and the Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will (ex-Cromarty) is...
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Again, on the 16th Nov., this Life-boat saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Fttatore, of Genoa, which was lost on the Middle Cross Sand, during a gale at N.N.E.
This service was one of extreme peril, and the Life-boat...
CHARLES JARVIS, 2nd Cox. - View image in PDF
SAM MAY. - View image in PDF
Cox. - View image in PDF
FRANK UPCRAFT, Bowman.. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 18TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At nine in the evening the coastguard reported a schooner flying the N.C. distress signal one and a half miles west-south-west of South Stack. The sea was smooth, with a light variable wind...
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX On the 6th December, 1940, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued eight men.
the crews of the barges Cambria, Decima, Glencoe, and Nelson.
COXSWAIN SIDNEY H. B. PAGE was awarded the...
Category: Medals
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 9.12 on the night of the 14th of December, 1955, the Banff coastguard reported that a vessel had sent a wireless distress message that she had run on the rocks west of Gardenstown. At 9.25 the life-boat Sr. Andrew,...
COXSWAIN GEOEGE STANLEY RICH- ARDS, who died on the 10th of January, 1954, at the age of 91, was a well-known personality in Lynmouth, and had been .coxswain of the Lyn- mouth life-boat from 1926 to 1931.
For forty years...
Category: Obituaries