FOR the rescue of six people from a motor fishing boat on the 21st February, 1968, Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.
At 12.40 a.m. on that day, the Buckie...
Category: Services
Just seconds after launching, the crew of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat, the 42ft Watson Dorothy and Philip Constant, raise the radar scanner anil radio aerials which are folded back while the boat is in her boathouse.
Dorothy... - View image in PDF
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TORBAY, SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON.-—At 11.25 A.M., on the 6th January, the Motor Life-boat George Shee left Brixham in a whole S.S.W.
gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, as the s.s. Ingola, of Glasgow, had sent out an...
Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.19 early on the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on to the Goodwin Sands, inside the Xorth Goodwin buoy, and was firing rockets. At 2.38 the life- boat Greater London,...
19th July.
A skiff had capsized, but the occupants got ashore without help.—Rewards, £8 15s..
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £16 15s. 6d..
FEBRUARY 28TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 15s..
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT WICK SEPTEMBER 21ST. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 2.25 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks inside Duncansby Head and in need of immediate help, and at five minutes...