SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 8th September the lifeboat watchman saw rockets in the direction of Kilnsea, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 5 A.M. A moderate S.S.E.
breeze was...
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.45 A.M. an aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea, and at 11.52 A.M. the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. Four...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.45 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Emergo III, which had been carrying out survey work, had lost both anchors off Sizewell and had...
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
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CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
WESTHAVEN, ANGUS. At three o’clock in the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1944, a sudden change in the strength and direction of the wind raised a rather heavy sea which was breaking with great force over the rocks.
The...
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Slaughden, a mile and half south of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was once a busy port. In the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the longshoremen there were advertising their various skills by means of painted signs.. - View image in PDF
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