Kenneth Voice joined Shoreham lifeboat crew in 1964, he was second coxswain from 1972 and was appointed coxswain in 1976; he was awarded the silver medal in 1980.. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.20 in the morning a message came from the senior naval officer, through the Blyth coastguard, that the Admiralty patrol vessel Robina Ingles appeared to be in difficulties. She...
Clubbling together - Rodney Turner, chairman of the Combined Water Sports Clubs of the River Exe, presents the cheque for £11,500 to Simon Turl, senior helmsman of the Exmouth lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 18TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 2.10 in the afternoon a telephone message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, that Hopper No.
4, a dredging vessel belonging to the Dublin Port and Docks Board, had...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.50 p.m. on 17th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north west of the Needles near the shingle bank. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped...
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
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On the night of the 31st Dec, last the brigantine tfuggtt, of Bideford, was driven from her anchors, and stranded on the " Doomed " bar, in Padstow harbour, a Heavy westerly gale blowing at the time. The crew, five in number,- took...
(right) Atlantic 21, Mike Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats (eastern) at the controls.. - View image in PDF
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Pictured above: Matthew enjoys a tour of the lifeboats at Poole, Dorset. - View image in PDF
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At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...