At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire August 15th.
June 30th, July 4th and 9th.Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down...
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The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn." By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston....
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.30 A.M. on the 4th July the coastguard reported that a vessel five miles west of Portland Bill was firing rockets. A strong breeze to moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Margate, Kent.—The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 10th January, in answer to a message from North Foreland wireless station, received through the coastguard, that a trawler about...
This magnificent photograph of the old Folkestone lifeboat, J.
McConnell Hussey, was found by Mrs Joan Hopkinson who kindly donated it to the local branch who in turn gave it to Geoff Cosford, proprietor of the Lifeboat Inn... - View image in PDF
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Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...
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Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.
on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.53 P.M.
on the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about two and a half miles E.S.E. of Skegness Pier. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with...
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