Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
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Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
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When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
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The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At about 1.30 P.M. on the 5th June it was reported by the coastguard that a flag was being...
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Figures already available show that 1965 was a year of outstanding achievement for the life-boat service. In 1964 an all-time record for launches by rescue craft of the RNLI was established. In that year life-boats were launched 929 times...
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THE presentation to Miss Alice Brown, vice president of the Caister on Sea ladies' life-boat guild, of a silver badge has created something of a record. For her family now holds one gold badge and three silver...
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