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A Sailing Dinghy

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...

A Boat

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.

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Date: March 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 419

Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 6.12 p.m. on 18th September, 1966, the police informed the coxswain that a skin diver was in difficulties under the cliff between the life-boat station and the coastguard lookout. The coxswain rang the coastguard...

Brawlass

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Barrow, Lancashire. At 8.38 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the Walney coastguard reported seeing red flares about three miles west-north- west of the look-out. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 8.55 in a calm sea with...

Peking, of Odessa

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Homber, Yorkshire - At 3.38 p.m. on November, 1967, the coxswain reported that there was a sick man on board the tanker Peking of Odessa.

The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Purr Purr

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.

on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...

Karting Coincidence

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Fundraisers from opposite sides of the UK had the same idea for raising cash over the birthday weekend - in the form of sponsored go-karting!. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fleetwood - Mersey Class Fisherman's Friend

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

The Mersey class Fisherman's Friend lies in the marina at Fleetwood under the watchful eye of the band during her naming ceremony. ( Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Keep on Trucking

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

The New Mercedes Truck. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Medals for Devon Coxswains

Date: March 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 19

Coxswain Edwin Distin, of Salcombe, who won the silver medal in the third month of the war, has now been awarded the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of an Admiralty salvage craft, in very heavy seas. His motor mechanic was ill, and his...

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