Soon after dark on the 28th December, signal lights and rockets were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands, by the beachmen at Caister, on the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat was at once launched, and, proceeding to the sands,...
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The 60-Feet Barnett Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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The 46-Feet Gorleston Type of Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Above: The naming ceremony of Phyl Clare 2. - View image in PDF
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This life-boat was also taken out on the 5th December to the schooner Columbine, of Wexford, which in running for Hantoon Channel, the entrance to Wexford Harbour, while the wind was blowing hard from the east, and the sea running high,...
On the 22nd No- vember, the schooner Mary Jane, of Pad- stow, was stranded in a strong wind and heavy sea near Clay Castle, on the Irish coast. The vessel had only started from Youghal that morning, but in consequence of stress of weather...
On the 14th March the schooner ffaberdine, of Teignmouth, on making Padstow harbour, was driven ashore on the Dunbar Sand. The life-boat was quickly alongside, and rescued her crew of 4 men. The vessel became shortly after a total wreck. The...
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
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Holy Island, Northumberland.—About eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st of January, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reported that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar, and that he felt anxious for the safety of two fishing boats....