Rod James Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 during the Bronze medal service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988. Crew Member James was awarded the Institution's Thanks on Vellum for his part in the service, as was... - View image in PDF
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Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...
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To help their local life-boat day publicity campaign, Susan Gardiner, of Helensburgh, Linda Kelly, of Cardross, and Janet McMillan, of Helensburgh, volunteered to be towed about Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 6th June, 1970, in an IRB. At... - View image in PDF
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Youth group members from St. Peter's Church in Pembury raised £466 for lifeboat coffers in March by washing cars and selling home-made cakes.
The group of 14 youngsters presented a cheque to Peter Chartes, chairman... - View image in PDF
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I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...
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Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...
Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...
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On the evening of the 31st December, 1931, prolonged blasts on a steamer's whistle were heard. There was fog and it was assumed that a vessel had run aground, either on the Smethwick Sands or under the South Cliffs. The No. 2 Pulling and...
On the morning of the 17th January, between 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., the fishing fleet of Gourdon put to sea. At 8 A.M.
there were signs of an approaching gale, and some of the smaller boats returned to harbour. By noon a...
MCH. 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the weather...