Salcombe, Devon.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1953, the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a sailing boat wassignalling for help half a mile south- west of Prawle Point. At 6.5 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL FISHING VESSEL REFLOATS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 17th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was ashore at Torness Point. At 5.46 the life-boat J.J.K.S...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 27th of February, 1949, information was re- ceived that a man a woman and three children had put out in the motor boat Alnora from Landermere Creek for the Walton Yacht...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...
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In the first thirty-three months of war life-boats have rescued 4754 lives. They have rescued more lives in these thirty-three months of war than in the last thirteen years of peace..
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MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
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Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby...
Cromer, Norfolk. Shortly after noon on the 16th of April, 1960, weather conditions began to deteriorate and some anxiety was felt for two Shering- ham crab boats fishing off Cromer.
The Sheringham coxswain made en- quiries...
The angry state of the sea at the time is well illustrated in this striking aerial picture of the wreck of the m.v. Anzio / off the Lincolnshire coast on 3rd April, 1966. Some of the crew of the Number life-boat were injured because of the... - View image in PDF
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From left are Cleethorpes Lifeboat Operations Manager Jack Barlow, Senior Helmsman Shaun Sonley, Senior Helmsman Gary Barlow, Tractor Driver Richard Clarfc, Crew Member Paul Spall and Crew Member Jamie King. (Also see page 43). - View image in PDF
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