JUNE 3RD. - DOVER, KENT. During the morning six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...
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Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...
THE LIFEBOAT Mersey Class lifeboat ON 1183 Lil Cunningham Built: 1W2 Cost: C650.000 Funding: A generous gift Irom Miit Salty Cunningham of Derby in memory of her sister D class lifeboat D-485 Stafford with Rugtlty Built: 1995 Cost. ni.OOO...
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Arranmore, August 30, 1986: This station, off the north west coast of Ireland, can accurately be described as one of the outposts of the RNLI. The picturesque island is now linked to the mainland by a regular ferry service and so it was... - View image in PDF
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At 6.15 P.M. on the 19th March a telephone message was received from Kentish Knock Light- vessel reporting that a barque, appar- ently on the Kentish Knock Sands, was burning flares for assistance. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 24th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the wife of a salmon fisherman at Machrihanish that a yacht was dragging her anchor in...
A northerly gale of extraordinary violence for the season of the year was experi- enced at Fraserburgh on the 7th Sep- tember, and the Life-boat Anna Maria Lee, after performing a gallant rescue, was for some time in considerable jeopardy....
RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...
On the 6th December the schooner Laura Ann, of Faversham, was in a dangerous position at the entrance to the Humber. The Life-boat Manchester Unity proceeded to her assistance, and helped the crew to get up her anchors, after which she was...