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During the Visit of a German Lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly Last May Colonel Sir John Carew Pole Bt Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall Presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge
During the visit of a German lifeboat to the Isles of Scilly last May, Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, Bt, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, presented Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge with the BEM awarded to him in the New Year Honours List... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grand Bonny, of Liverpool
During a strong gale, on the night of the 3rd November, the ship Grand Bonny, of Liverpool, went ashore opposite the Waterloo Coast Guard Station.
She exhibited blue-lights and other signals of distress, and on their being...
Duke of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey-At io.2ia.m. on 8th March, 1966, the duty harbour officer received a Mayday message via Jersey radio from the tug Duke of Normandy saying that she had struck a rock near Les Vascelius on the Les Minquiers reef. The...
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Taurus
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.58 a.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a small boat three miles north east of Whitby buoy was requesting assistance. At 11.10 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a strong northerly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
Peeks of Bournemouth Ltd
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
Helmsman Ian Stringer
Silver Medal Helmsman Ian Stringer of Eastbourne for the rescue of two men trapped under Eastbourne Pier in complete darkness, heavy seas and extremely difficult conditions - see The Lifeboat Winter 1997/98 for a full report of the... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
REDCAR AND MIDDLESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
—The Redcar life-boat men having refused to work their boat, as they considered it was not large enough, a larger and more roomy life-boat has been supplied to them in its place. It is...
Category: Articles
Above: the Zetland
Above: The Zetland on show at the Zetland Lifeboat Museum. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A new Life-boat has been placed on this Station, in lieu of the old boat, and the gift by Mrs. JOSEPH SOMES of Annery House, North Devon, of 3,0001. to the Institution to defray the cost of a Life-boat and its permanent...
Category: Articles